Volume 3 Flashcards

(85 cards)

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dériver

A

to divert
deflect
drift off course

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le lest

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ballast

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3
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une soupape

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valve

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une clochette

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small bell
cowbell

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une ribambelle de

A

herd of
flock of
host of
string of…

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6
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brailler

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to bawl
yell

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7
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grincheux (adj)

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grumpy

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8
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un sabotier

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clog maker

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ébruiter

s’ébruiter

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to divulge

to get out

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10
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le bouleau

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birch

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11
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un noyer

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walnut
walnut tree

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12
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crédule (adj)

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gullible

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13
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la crédulité

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gullibility

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glauque (adj)

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squalid
grim
murky
glaucous

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parquer

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to park (a vehicle)
to pen up

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un tripot

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gambling den
dive

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nauséabond (adj)

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nauseating
disgusting

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un amoncellement

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accumulation due to wind or water
piling up

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19
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débusquer

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to break cover

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20
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sévir

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to be severe

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un gueux
une gueuse

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beggar

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crotter

bottes crottées

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to muddy

muddy boots

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un mets (m invar)

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dish
delicacy

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vaillant (adj)

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brave

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tapageur (adj)
rowdy showy
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l’hobereau
squirearchy
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bâclé (adj)
slapdash carelessly
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un châtiment
punishment
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le chiffonnier
ragman
30
borgne (adj)
one-eyed
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une capote
great coat hood condom (informal)
32
raidir
to stiffen tense
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un bagnard
convict
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pestilentiel (adj)
pestilential foul
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pestilentiellement
infectiously like an epidemic
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une cale
wedge chock hold (ship)
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l’accouplement (m)
coupling mating intercourse
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le néant
nothingness
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farouche (adj)
shy fierce
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l’essor (m) être en plein essor
soaring developing to be booming
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redevable (adj)
beholden indebted
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un treuil
winch
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une nuée
thick cloud
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enchevetrer
to tangle
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une poutrelle
girder
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un clocheton
pinnacle turret
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l’ouï-dire (m) par ouï-dire
hearsay by hearsay
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la roublardise
craftiness (derogatory) cunning
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ternir
to tarnish fade
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la supercherie
trickery deception
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la noyade
drowning
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un sous-main
desk blotter
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en sous-main
secretly
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une hure
head (as a trophy)
55
faire main basse sur
to help oneself to
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un repreneur
repossessor
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rançonner
to fleece extort rob
58
plafonner
to put a ceiling on
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nuire
to harm
60
buter
to stumble kill sb (colloq)
61
un fleuron
small ornamental object at the top of a column jewel (in the crown) (fig)
62
bouder
to sulk avoid
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fébrile (adj)
feverish
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un bellâtre
dandy
65
militer
to campaign be an activist
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un troublion
troublemaker
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s’étonner
to be surprised
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attiser
to stir up fuel give rise to
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un archet
bow
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préalable (adj) au préalable
previous previously
71
survenir
to occur to arrive unexpectedly
72
la coqueluche
whooping cough pertussis
73
une dépositaire
trustee possessor
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la date limite
deadline
75
une remise
remission
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bancal (adj)
rickety unsound
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l’etabli (m)
workbench
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une mésentente
disagreement
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une partition
partition (sharing) score (music)
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une fugue faire une fugue
elopement to run away
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une rengaine c’est toujours la même rengaine
old tune It’s always the same old thing.
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le rotin en rotin
cane rattan made of rattan
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un vivier
fishpond
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une roulotte
caravan (eg gypsy)
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pantois (adj)
amazed