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Volume 2 Flashcards

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rassasier

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to satisfy, sate (a voracious appetite)

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Ça peut pas ne pas marcher.

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That can’t not happen.

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raidir

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to stiffen

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ébouriffer

…pour ébouriffer sa chevelure

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to tousle, ruffle

…to tousle his hair

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une chevelure

une abondante chevelure bouclée

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hair

a mass of curly hair

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humecter

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to dampen

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un vaisselier

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dresser

buffet

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nacre

les boutons en nacre

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mother of pearl

pearl buttons

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c’était au moment où…

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It was the moment when…

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une tignasse

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wig

mop of hair (colloquial)

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scruter

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scrutinize

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rutiler

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to glow, gleam

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un cachet

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stamp
seal
tablet (pill)
fee

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approuver

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to approve

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accroupir

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to squat, crouch, bend down

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une alliance

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alliance
marriage
wedding ring

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le ménagement

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consideration, respectfulness

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Parce que si ça tenait qu’à moi…

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Because if it was up to me…

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un sillon

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furrow, groove, row

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amouracher (perjorative)

s’amouracher de

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to become enamoured with

to become infatuated with

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overbooké (adj)

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overbooked

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susurrer

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whisper

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dans ton dos

jouer dans ton dos

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behind your back

to play around behind your back

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autour de

autour du petit établi (établi = établissement)

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around

around the premises

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une fournaise Dans le cabanon au fond du jardin, c'est déjà de la fournaise
blaze, flame sweltering heat oven In the shed at the bottom of the garden, it's already sweltering.
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tous les coups sont permis
no holds barred
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tous les coins et les recoins
every nook and cranny
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le souffle
breath
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écailler
to scale, shell, chip away
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écaillé (adj)
flaking
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un amas
heap, pile
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un guéridon
pedestal table
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détonner détonner au milieu de
to jar to be out of place among
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le salaud (derogatory slang)
bastard
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un cabanon
cottage shed hut
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le butin
booty, spoils
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brasser il brasse des millions
to brew (beer) to shuffle around (papers etc) to blow about (leaves) He handles big money
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l'en-tête
header | logo that appears on every page of a document
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dédaigner
to disdain
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dédaigneusement
disdainfully
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escrimer s'escrimer à faire... (colloquial)
to fight to knock one's self out to...
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bedonnant (adj)
pot-bellied
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un accoudoir
arm-rest
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la morgue
morgue | arrogance
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attiser
to fuel stir up inflame
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une braise
ember
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un tison
a (fire)brand, poker
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une escalope (f?)
cutlet, thin slice of meat
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un rubis payer rubis sur l'ongle (idiom)
ruby to pay cash on the nail
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un môme (colloquial)
kid, brat
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une crapule
villain, crook
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gémir
to moan, groan, whine
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endiguer
to stem, curb, hold back
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L'avion atterrit avec neuf minutes de retard sur l'heure prévu
The plane lands nine minutes later than the scheduled time.
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le livre de bord
log book (for an aircraft)
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la soute
hold, baggage compartment
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le fret
freight
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une passerelle
a gangway footbridge interconnection between two computers
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la rousse (slang)
the fuzz, cops
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un croquis
sketch
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diluvien (adj) sous une pluie diluvienne
torrential under a torrential rainstorm
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la cupidité
cupidity, greed, avarice
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une attirance
an attraction, affinity, allurement
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prendre qqn en filature (colloquial)
to tail someone
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éventrer
to disembowel
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joncher
to strew, litter
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une imprimante à aiguilles
a dot matrix printer
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épousseter
to dust
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maculer de
to smudge with
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cambrer cambrer les reins cambrer les dos se cambrer
to arch to arch one's back to arch one's back
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s'estomper
to become blurred
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C'est chacune pour soi!
It's everyone for herself.
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tapisser
to upholster, cover | to carpet
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un chiffon
rag, cloth
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arborer
to sport, wear
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une casquette
cap
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ôter de ôter tes pieds du fauteuil
to remove Take your feet off the chair.
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renfrogner se renfrogner
to scowl, frown to become sullen
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un chantier
a worksite
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les gravats (mp)
rubble
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rire au nez de qqn
to laugh in someone's face
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échafauder
to put a plan together
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imbriquer
to fit into, to overlap
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en dessous
underneath
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une bréloque
charm, trinket
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une mémère (colloquial)
granny
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une ardoise toit d'ardoises
slate slate roof
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fourbir
to polish
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un/une énergumène
oddball | fanatic
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se plier en quatre (idiom)
bend over backwards
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hébété (adj)
stunned
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frôler
to brush against
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une trombe en trombe Il démarre en trombe
waterspout, whirlwind hurtling off He starts, hurtling off.
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lancinant (adj)
throbbing
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un flot
flood, stream | influx, rise

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