Volume 1 Flashcards

(113 cards)

1
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adouber

A

to raise to a higher rank or position

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essaimer

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to swarm
spread

Un essaim = swarm

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attrouper

s’attrouper

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to attract
to gather

grouper

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débiter

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to debit

to reel off
unwind (dévider)

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la supputation

A

supposition
prediction

estimation
prédiction

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supputer

A

to size up

jauger
évaluer

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terne (adj)

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dull

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un corsage

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blouse

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cramoisi (adj)

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crimson

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déguerpir

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to clear off

s’enfuir

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un cerbère

A

guardian

watchdog

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un échotier

une échotière

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local news reporter

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défraîchi (adj)

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stale

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un gaillard

une gaillarde

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sb in good shape

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15
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échevelé (adj)

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disheveled

hirsute

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16
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vaille que vaille

A

somehow or other

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17
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une bedaine

A

paunch

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18
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narguer

A

to taunt

provoquer

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19
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un créancier

une créancière

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creditor

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20
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la boxe

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boxing

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une banderille (pronounced bond’ri)

A

barbed spear used to taunt bull

un dard

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22
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insouciant (adj)

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carefree

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23
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un paillasson

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doormat

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les faciés (mp)

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facial features

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gêné (adj)
embarrassed timid skint
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une carrière
career quarry
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la pomme d’Adam
Adam’s apple
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un péage
cost of entry | toll booth
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pâlichon (adj)
watery
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tressauter
to start | jolt
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forer
to drill une perceuse = a drill
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en voir de toutes les couleurs
to have a hard time
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fuguer
run away faire la fugue
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à la mords-moi-le-nœud
do-gooder (plus others)
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pocher
to poach (an egg) to give sb a black eye
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trapu (adj)
stocky | short and fat
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grincheux (adj)
grumpy grognon sévère
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à l’occasion
on occasion
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un accrochage
hanging (of a picture) clash bump (cars) une querelle un affrontement
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la veille au soir
previous evening
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noueux (adj)
knotty | gnarled
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être aux petits soins pour qn
to lavish attention on sb
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malmener
to manhandle maltraiter
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intérimaire (adj, n m/f)
interim | temporary
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faire preuve de
to show | demonstrate
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la boutade
witticism whim outburst
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faire de plus belle
more than ever | unabated
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les dorures (fp)
gilt (gold trimmed)
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dévaster
to devastate
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la Cornouailles
Cornwall
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ventripotent (adj)
portly
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une louve
she-wolf
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azimuté (adj)
crazy
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alanguir
to make languid, drowsy
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prendre ses cliques et ses claques
to pack one’s bags
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assoiffé de (adj)
thirsty for
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l’indigence (f)
poverty
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faute de mieux
for want of anything better
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l’empressement (m)
eagerness | attentiveness
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s’empresser
to hasten to to show attentiveness to se hâter de
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une lime une lime à ongles
a file nail file
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un calepin
notebook
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par ordre d’ancienneté
in chronological order
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un cran
notch detent sang-froid (fam)
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puiser
to pull out | extract
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empiler
to pile up
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un paquetage
pack (military backpack)
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en contrebas de
at the foot of | down below
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la suie
soot
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sommaire (adj, n m)
basic | perfunctory
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un produit ménager
cleaning product
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s’abstenir
to abstain
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porter sur
to be about | pertain to
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un croque-mitaine
bogeyman
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un cerbère
minder | watchdog
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un goguenot
dunny | toilet
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narguer
to taunt
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vitupérer
to blame
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défrayer la conversation | défrayer qn
to be the main topic of conversation | to pay for sb
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numéroter
to number
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éploré (adj)
tearful
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la pacotille
cheap goods | rubbish
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tapageur (adj)
rowdy showy criard
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un instantané
snapshot un cliché
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un rouquin | une rouquine
redhead
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un badaud | une badaude
passerby onlooker passant flâneur
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une redingote
long coat belted at the waist
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dodu (adj)
plump
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un zézaiement
lisp
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enculer (vulgar slang)
to bugger
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brailler
to yell out | bawl
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la flagornerie
obsequiousness | brown-nosing
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un enculé (vulgar slang)
bugger
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taillader
to slash
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les retrouvailles (fp)
reunion
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un bus à impériale
double-decker bus
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une pendeloque
pendant
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un lustre | un lustre à pendeloque
chandelier
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pour autant
even so | for all that
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au demeurant
moreover
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le parement
facing
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un fronton
pediment decorative column top front of a building
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en bonne et due forme
in good standing | valid
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feutré (adj)
felted | padded, silenced
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casanier (adj)
stay-at-home | homebody
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``` un rupin (adj, n) une rupine ```
filthy rich person
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hardi (adj)
audacious bold audacieux
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à merveille
wonderfully | perfectly
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embusquer
to ambush
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un venu | une venue
newcomer
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récurer
to scour
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un chaton (d’une bague)
setting of a ring la monture
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la bricole
object of no value junk le bricolage = diy