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Volume 3 Flashcards

1
Q

l’inimitié (f)

A

enmity

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2
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estimer

s’estimer

A

to estimate
value
consider

to consider oneself

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3
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le refoulement

A

suppression
repression
turn/drive back

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4
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le foyer

A 
home
house
family
household
hearth
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5
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capital (adj)

A

momentous
crucial
key

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6
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chérir

A

to cherish

treasure

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7
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une sauterelle

A

grasshopper

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8
Q

un bocal

A

jar

bowl

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9
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inéluctable (adj)

A

inevitable

inescapable

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10
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couper le souffle

A

to take the breath away

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11
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les cellules souches (fp)

A

stem cells

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12
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un bond en avant

A

a leap ahead

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13
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en viager (adj)

A

in return for a life annuity

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14
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récompenser de (for), par (with)

A

to reward

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15
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un champ de tir

A

shooting range

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16
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avachir
s’avachir

avachi devant la télé

A

sag
to let oneself go

slumped in front of the television

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17
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la nuit des temps

A

mists of time

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18
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sauter

A

jump

skip (ie, omit)

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19
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un tabouret

A

footstool

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20
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frayer

frayer avec ces gens

A 
open up (a path)
mix with

mix with these people

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21
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le maquis

A

thicket

French underground resistance during WW II

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22
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une brimade

A

vexation

bullying

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23
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bonnement (adj)

tout bonnement

A

agreeably
fine

quite simply

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24
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rancarder

A

to secretly date (informal)

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25
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un rancard

A

date
rendez-vous
tip off

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26
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graveleux (adj)

A

gravelly
gritty
smutty
indecent

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27
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une chaloupe

A

rowboat

launch
ship

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28
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chaloupée (adj)

démarche chaloupée

A

swaying

rolling gait

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29
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le cursus (m invariable)

A

course

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30
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une dégringolade

A

fall
collapse
plunge

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31
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l’effeuillage (m)

A

thinning of leaves

striptease

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32
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narguer

A

to mock
jeer
taunt

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33
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une paillette

A

sequin

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34
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complexé (adj)

A

hung up

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35
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un porte-jarretelles

A

garter belt

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36
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éreintant (adj)

A

exhausting

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37
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une mante

A

praying mantis

man-eater (fig)

38
Q

le sevrage

A

weaning

39
Q

analphabète (adj)

A

illiterate

40
Q

monoparental (adj)

A

single-parent

41
Q

la créance

A

debt

42
Q

untel (m)

Vous savez madame untel…

A

so and so
someone

You know, madame so and so…

43
Q

la dénivellation

A

slope

putting out of level

44
Q

un dénivelé

une dénivelée

A

difference in altitude

45
Q

crisper

se crisper

A

to tense
contort

clench
tense up

46
Q

les uns derrière les autres

A

one after the other

47
Q

un bourreau

A

executioner

tormentor

48
Q

affronter

s’affronter

A

to confront

to clash

49
Q

opérer

Quels choix opérer?

A 
to operate   (surgery)
function
make

What choices to make?

50
Q

une saynète

A

sketch

playlet

51
Q

bavard (adj)

A

talkative

52
Q

boutonneux (adj)

A

pimply

53
Q

la pénurie

A

shortage
paucity
famine

54
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apparenter à

s’apparenter à

A

to be similar to

to resemble

55
Q

décrocher

A

to pick up the phone

to give up (colloq)

56
Q

un thésard

une thésarde

A

PhD student

57
Q

débouché (adj)

A

open

58
Q

un débouché

A

opening
market
outlet

59
Q

cloisonner

A

to partition
compartmentalize
divide up

60
Q

ludique (adj)

A

playful

61
Q

revêtir

revêtir la forme de qqc

A

to have
to assume

to take the form of st

62
Q

friand (adj)

être friand de qqc

A

fond of

to be very fond of st

63
Q

goguenard (adj)

A

mocking

gently ironic

64
Q

louper

A

to miss out on

fail

65
Q

en vrille

A

in a tailspin

66
Q

démesuré (adj)

A

unbounded

enormous

67
Q

trépigner

A

stamp

68
Q

refoulé (adj)

A

frustrated

repressed

69
Q

embrouillé (adj)

A

muddled

confused

70
Q

une vétille

A

triviality

trifle

71
Q

esquiver

A

to evade

72
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criser

A

to freak out

be in a crisis

73
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démuni (adj)

A

destitute

deprived

74
Q

le rapport de force

A

balance of power

75
Q

apprivoiser

A

to tame

76
Q

un proxénète

A

pimp

procurer

77
Q

le proxénétisme

inculpé de proxénétisme

A

procurement

charged with living off immoral earnings

78
Q

faire ses griffes

A

scratch (cat)

79
Q

intervenant (adj)

A

interfering

80
Q

un énoncé

A

statement (de of)

pronouncement

81
Q

le support

A

support

stand

82
Q

un orfèvre

A

goldsmith

expert (fig)

83
Q

l’orfèvrerie

A

goldsmith’s art

84
Q

une jacquerie

A

peasant revolt

85
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maussade (adj)

A

dull (weather)

86
Q

galopant (adj)

A

rampant

87
Q

un buteur

A

scorer (soccer)

88
Q

faire le pont

A

have a long weekend

89
Q

palpitant (adj)

A

thrilling
palpitating
pulsing

90
Q

un canif

A

penknife

pocketknife

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