Volume 2 Flashcards

(90 cards)

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l’avènement

A

accession

coming

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pour autant

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even so
for all that
however

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écarteler

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tear apart

quarter

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caritatif (adj)

une association caritative
une organisation caritative

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charitable

charitable association
charitable organization

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à son egard

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towards him/her

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attachant (ajd)

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appealing
charming
engaging
captivating

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socieux (adj)

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concerned

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découler de

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to follow from
to result from
to flow from

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bien fondé (adj)

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well founded

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à l’état brut

A

in its natural state

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cramer

se cramer

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burn
combust
to be on fire (can be figurative)

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kiffer (colloq)

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to like

be fond of

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l’orge (f)

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barley

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un pipeau

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flute

pipe

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sciemment

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knowingly

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l’enneigement

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snowfall

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enneigé (adj)

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snowbound

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engranger

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gather

store

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19
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une balise

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beacon
marker
signpost

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le volet

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shutter
flap

constituent (politics, business)
section (folded material)

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rythmer

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to make rythmic

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le rythme

au rythme de

changer au rythme des saisons

rythme cardiaque

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rhythm
rate

at a rate of

to change in step with the seasons

heart rate

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éberluer

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to dumbfound

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éprouvant (adj)

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gruelling

trying

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le SAMU
Service d’Assistance Médicale d’Urgence
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rapetisser
to dwarf make smaller shrink
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le jugement
judgement verdict decision opinion
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serviable (adj)
helpful | obliging
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premièrement
firstly, first | for a start (to introduce an objection)
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effectivement
indeed actually really effectively
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succeder
to follow
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une evidence
obviousness
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éclore
hatch | open
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la croissance
growth | development
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un socle
pedestal | base
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la précarité
precariousness | tenuousness
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le ras-le-bol
discontent lassitude exhaustion
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un colloque
symposium | conference
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une cocotte
casserole glass or pottery baking dish darling, honey (informal) loose woman (dated, colloq, pejor)
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cocotter
to stink
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gueuler gueuler de douleur gueuler comme un âne/putois/perdu
to bawl, yell, howl (colloq) kick up a fuss scream with pain to scream bloody murder
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le mépris de avoir du mépris pour au mépris de la loi
contempt for to despise regardless of the law
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une plaie une plaie vive La plaie d’argent n’est pas mortelle.
wound sore plague open sore Money isn’t everything
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la galère condamné aux galères être dans la même galère
galley (of a ship) hell (colloq) sentenced to hard labour to be in the same boat
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le bidon bidon d’essence
can tin water bottle gas can
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bidon (adj) c’est du bidon chèque bidon
phony fraudulent It’s a load of bull bad cheque
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le dédoublement dédoublement de la personnalité
bifurcation splitting in two split personality
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rarissime
extremely rare
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traire machine à traire
to milk milking machine
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un troufion
soldier
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raser raser les murs
to shave raze to the ground graze bore (colloq) hug the walls (idiom)
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exécrable (adj)
dreadful | abhorrent
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exécrablement
abominably | despicably
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émerveiller être émerveillé par s’émerveiller de/devant qc
to fill with wonder to marvel at to marvel at st
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apparenter s’apparenter à
be similar to to resemble
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une conscience
conscience conscienceness heart mind
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déboucher déboucher de déboucher sur déboucher dans
unblock to come out of to open onto/ to lead to to open into
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une rupture amoureuse
end of a love afair
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sinistre (adj) de sinistres crétins/crapule
sinister ominous disastrous dire absolute idiots/crooks
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un sinistré | une sinistrée
disaster victim
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une permanente
perm (hair) | permanent feature
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bienheureux (adj)
blissful
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un bienheureux | une bienheureuse
fortunate, happy person
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fêler
to crack split fracture
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rageant (adj)
maddening | infuriating
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rager
to rage | be furiously angry
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régir
to govern administer steward
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un gouffre le gouffre de l’oubli
gulf chasm abyss the pit of oblivion
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éluder
elude evade fend off
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la life
life (used in TEDx talk)
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insupporter
to not tolerate (used in TEDx talk)
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cheminer cheminer à travers/entre
to walk alone plod progress to wend its way through/between
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un pèlerin
pilgrim
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sacré (adj)
sacred
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un tampon servir de tampon
pad stopper buffer to act as a buffer
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teinter
to tint stain tinge
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immanquablement
inevitably
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ployer
bend bow sag
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le caran
constraint rigidity straitjacket
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``` tant tant de tant que en tant que tant mieux tant pis tant et plus tant que mal tant bien que mal ```
``` so much so much, so many as so much the better too bad so much and more so hard with great difficulty ```
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par rapport à
with reference to
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alors que
even though
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de par
as part of
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la tutelle
tutelage | guardianship
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faner
to fade | wither
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la délitescence
concealment
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le désavue
denial rejection condamnation
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la sollicitude
concern | solicitude
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vénérer
to venerate worship revere
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se tracasser pour
to worry about