Volume 2 Flashcards

(115 cards)

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s’embarrasser de…

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to burden oneself with…

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la jointure

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joint

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l’accalmie (f)

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lull

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s’engeueler avec qqn

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to have a row with someone

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un volant

d’être au volant

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steering wheel

to be at the wheel

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emboîter

s’emboîter le pas à quelqu’un

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to fit together

to fall in step with someone

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une borne

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a marker
a marker stone
a landmark

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la cueillette

la cueillette des indices

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gathering, collection

collection of evidence

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le gré

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liking, preference

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débordé (adj)

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hard pressed for time

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loufoque (adj) slang

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crazy, wacky

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un gruyère

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kind of cheese with many holes

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anodin (adj)

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harmless, insignificant, unimportant

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affecter

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to affect
to assign
to allocate

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mi-temps

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part-time

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la revanche

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revenge

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revancher

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to avenge

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la calvitie

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baldness

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l’épanouissement (m)

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blooming, development

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le contrecoup

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repercussion

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les propos (mp)

à propos…
à propos de…

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remarks

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ordurier (adj)

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foulmouthed

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le langage

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language, speech, parlance

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apaiser

s’apaiser

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to appease, soothe

to die down

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la paupière
eyelid
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mi-clos (adj)
half closed
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parcheminé (adj)
papery
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la vieillesse
old age
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il s'avère que...
It transpires that... | It turns out that...
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un fantasme
a fantasy
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en même temps que...
at the same time as...
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dorénavant
henceforth
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un prélèvement faire (ou effectuer) un prélèlement de sang
a sample to take a blood sample
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buter
to stumble to kill (colloquial)
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mobile (adj)
mobile, moveable
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un mobile
a motive
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la justesse la justesse d'une déscision
accuracy, exactness the correctness of a decision
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un parent | une parente
a relation
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la parenté
relationship
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un vernissage
private viewing
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un courtier
broker (insurance, stock)
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l'acharnement (m)
fierceness
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un/une homologue
counterpart
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entasser
to pile up something
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assoupir
make drowsy | dim
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les mamelles (f) (derogatory)
tits
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syntonisé sur
tuned to
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rocambolesque (adj)
fantastic, incredible, unbelievable
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un signalement un signalement de quelqu'un
description a description of someone
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en formation
on a training course
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doter
to endow
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doté de
furnished with
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textuellement
verbatim
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infect (adj) infecté (adj)
vile, disgusting infected
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abondamment
amply, generously
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adonner s'adonner à
to addict to devote oneself to
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la portée de
the reach, extent, scope of
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un arbre
tree | shaft (as in drive shaft, camshaft etc)
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une cote
a quotation (price)
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précoce (adj)
precocious, forward
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une tête de pont
a bridgehead
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rabougrir rabougri
to shrink, shrivel shrunken, shrivelled
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un assentiment
assent, consent, approval
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augurer
to bode
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léguer léguer qqc à qqn
to bequeath, hand down to leave something to someone
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décontenancé (adj)
taken aback
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un/une tortionnaire
torturer
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la rescousse
rescue
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infléchir
to inflect, influence
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la corvée
drudgery
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l'allure (f)
bearing
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postuler postuler auprès de postuler à, pour
to postulate to apply to apply for employment to apply for
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coïncider
to coincide
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un répartiteur
distributor, wholesaler
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une entrevue
a meeting, press conference
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une rente
annuity, private income
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un/une garant(e)
guarantor | guaranty
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criard (adj)
piercing, garish
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réduire
to reduce
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écumer
to skim | to foam
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informer
to inform
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affûter
to grind, sharpen
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conquérir
to conquer
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embusquer s'embusquer
to ambush, to hide in order to attack to lie in ambush, to prepare to ambush
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dépourvu de... (adj)
devoid of... | lacking in...
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un complot
conspiracy
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surélever
to raise, heighten
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surélevé
raised
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délavé (adj)
washed out, faded
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un pieu
post, stake
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le désarroi
distress, confusion
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un contretemps
a setback, hindrance
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à temps
in time
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écarter
to discard | to put aside
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plancher sur
to work on
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un plancher
``` a floor a bottom (as in stocks) ```
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un baîllement
a yawn
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décharner
to emaciate
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égarer
to mislead
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planquer se planquer
to hide, stash something to go into hiding
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un déclencheur
trigger, release mechanism (concrete or figurative)
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l'appat (m) appater
bait to lure with bait
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rajeunir
to rejuvenate
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énième (adj) pour la énieme fois
umpteenth for the umpteenth time
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planer
to smooth to glide to float
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aiguiller
to switch
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aiguillonner
to goad
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redevable de/à (adj)
indebted, beholden to
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bénéfique (adj) être bénéfique à quelqu'un
beneficial to do someone good
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reculons (adv) aller à reculons
backwards, in reverse to go backwards, back up (literally, as with vehicle, or figuratively)
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participatif (adj)
participatory
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endosser
to put on to endorse to assume
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pointer
to point | to check off
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la maxime
maxim
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récapituler
to sum up