Volume 3 Flashcards

(134 cards)

1
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hasarder

se hasarder à faire

A

to risk

to venture to do

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2
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prétendument

A

supposedly

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une emprise

A

hold, influence

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4
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rechigner à qqc/qqn

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to balk at someone/something

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5
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une escale

A

stop over

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enflammé (adj)

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aflame

passionate

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collant (adj)

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sticky
skin tight
clinging (colloquial)

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ciller

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to blink, flicker

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9
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minauder

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to simper

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10
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fouiner

fouiner dans

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to nose about

to rummage through

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envahissant

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invasive

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12
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volage (adj)

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fickle

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13
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ringard (adj)

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old fashioned, out of date

tasteless

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14
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les déboires (mp)

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disappointments

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15
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le célibat

A

state of being single

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16
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les réacteurs

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jet engines

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17
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agripper

s’agripper à

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to grap, grasp firmly

to cling to

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18
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le strapontin

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jump seat (that stewardess uses during take-off and landings)

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19
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la hôstesse de l’aire

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stewardess

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20
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être happé par

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to be caught up in

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21
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luisant (adj)

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gleaming, shiny

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suinter

suinter de

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to ooze

to ooze from
to seep through

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23
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la superbe

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magnificence (as an especially attractive person)

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un gourbi

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slum

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trier
to select, sort
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brinquebaler
to rattle about to jolt along (auto) to be shaken (person
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dégourdir
bring circulation back to
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afin de
so as to
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un effluve
outflow | exhalation (especially one with an unpleasant smell)
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la mine
look
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vaquer vaquer à ses occupations vaquer à d'autres occupations
to vacation, be in recess to tend to one's business to tend to other business
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la crinière
mane (of a horse)
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un trousseau de clés
a bunch of keys
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la carlingue
cockpit (airplane)
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de temps à l'autre
from time to time
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le physique de l'emploi
look the part
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contourner
bypass, skirt around
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engluer s'engluer dans qqc
to make sticky to become bogged down in something
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délaisser
to abandon forsake neglect
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la rambarde
guard rail
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une poutre
beam
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afficher
to put up, display
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rendre l'âme (idiom) | rendre l'esprit
to pass away
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bridé (adj)
slit
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brider
to control, curb
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imparable (adj)
unstoppable
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raviser | se raviser
to change one's mind
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râler (informal)
moan, groan
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maudire
to curse, damn
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minable (adj)
shabby, pathetic
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ensevelir
to enshroud
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élimé (adj)
shabby, threadbare
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congédier
to dismiss
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filasse (adj)
white blond (hair)
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systématiquement
systematically
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médicalisé (adj)
medicalized, to be identified as having a medical condition requiring treatment.
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médicaliser
to identify someone as having a condition needing treatment
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une convenance
convenience, appropriateness
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déballer
to unpack, open, display
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végéter
to vegetate, stagnate
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un taudis
slum, hovel, pigsty
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stooler qqn (Quebec)
to rat someone out
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un trocard (slang) trocard (adj)
trash (person) | trashy
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grabataire (adj)
bedridden
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un grain de beauté
beauty spot, mole
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cuilles (vulgar slang)
balls
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enchevêtrer
to tangle, cause to become interwined in a confused mess
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enchevêtré (adj)
tangled, in a confused mess
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écarteler
to tear apart, quarter
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écartelé
quartered | torn apart
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au fil de au fil des ans au fil de l'enquête aller au fil de l'eau au fil d'aiguille = au fur à mesure
over the course of through the years over the course of the inquiry to go with the flow bit by bit
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enfouir
to bury
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écraser s'écraser
to crush (or otherwise demolish) to crash
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le perron
flight of steps, porch
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la grandiloquence
pomposity
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frémir
to go crazy, tremble
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déshabiller
to undress
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gâcher
to wrong | spoil
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le veilleur de nuit
night watchman
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pareillement
similarly
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une rame
a train | an oar
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la correspondance vols en correspondance
correspondence connection (travel) connecting flights
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une sangle | les sangles
strap | webbing
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se briser contra
broke against
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le gros lot
jackpot
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vriller descendre en vrille
to tailspin to go into a spiral dive
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un pantin
a puppet, dummy
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désarticuler
to dislocate (someone's arm for example)
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désarticulé
dislocated
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périr
to perish
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amorcer
to initiate | to begin
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un macarme
din, racket
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un préposé
employee
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passer en revue
to review
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un soubresaut les derniers soubresauts
a start, jolt death throws
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une tige
stem
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les abords (mp) aux abords de qqc/qqp
purlieu, nearby areas in the area of someone/someplace
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il n'y est pas allé de main morte! (idiom) Elle n'y est pas allée de main morte!
He didn't pull his punches! She didn't pull her punches!
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un ceinturon
belt
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un feuillet
page
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le mépris de
contempt for
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la dérobade
evasion, avoidance
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le gîte et le couvert
room and board
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un sidéen
AIDS sufferer
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la couleur préférée de Zoé
the colour prefered by Zoé
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jauger
to guage, measure up
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détaler
to run off
108
courir comme un dératé (idiom)
to run like crazy
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la berge
bank, embankment
110
dégouliner
to trickle
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la buée
steam, mist
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ratatiner
to shrivel
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le siphon
drain (of a tub)
114
sous tous les rapports Le gens qui parassaient bien sous tous les rapports...
by all accounts People who seem fine by all accounts...
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les faïences (f?)
earthenwares (fixtures in a hotel room?)
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une effigie à l'effigie de l'hôtel
an effigy logo with the logo of the hotel
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entrouvrir
to open half way
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un larcin
petty theft
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une mensuration
measurement
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la précarité la précarité de l'emploi
precariousness job insecurity
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démancher
to remove the handle le manche = sleeve, handle. In the present case, the wand of a vacuum cleaner.
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le mutisme
mutism, inability to speak
123
une vessie
bladder
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tenailler
to torment, torture
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dérober se dérober sous
to steal, hide to give way
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dévaler
hurtle, glide
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la mélasse
molasses muck (colloquial)
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napper
cover/coat with a thin layer
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soucieux
concerned
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cuver cuver son vin (idiom)
to ferment sleep it off
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une cuve
a tank (often for fermenting)
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une brouette
wheelbarrow
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ratisser ratisser large (idiom)
rake over cast one's net wide
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un boulet
ball and chain, millstone, a drag on one's being