Volume 3 Flashcards by Ken Wodlinger

l’inimitié (f)

enmity

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estimer

s’estimer

to estimate
value
consider

to consider oneself

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le refoulement

suppression
repression
turn/drive back

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le foyer

home
house
family
household
hearth

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capital (adj)

momentous
crucial
key

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chérir

to cherish

treasure

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une sauterelle

grasshopper

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un bocal

jar

bowl

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inéluctable (adj)

inevitable

inescapable

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couper le souffle

to take the breath away

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les cellules souches (fp)

stem cells

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un bond en avant

a leap ahead

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en viager (adj)

in return for a life annuity

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récompenser de (for), par (with)

to reward

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un champ de tir

shooting range

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avachir
s’avachir

avachi devant la télé

sag
to let oneself go

slumped in front of the television

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la nuit des temps

mists of time

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sauter

jump

skip (ie, omit)

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un tabouret

footstool

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frayer

frayer avec ces gens

open up (a path)
mix with

mix with these people

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le maquis

thicket

French underground resistance during WW II

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une brimade

vexation

bullying

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bonnement (adj)

tout bonnement

agreeably
fine

quite simply

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rancarder

to secretly date (informal)

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un rancard

date rendez-vous tip off

graveleux (adj)

gravelly gritty smutty indecent

une chaloupe

rowboat launch ship

chaloupée (adj) démarche chaloupée

swaying rolling gait

le cursus (m invariable)

course

une dégringolade

fall collapse plunge

l’effeuillage (m)

thinning of leaves | striptease

narguer

to mock jeer taunt

une paillette

sequin

complexé (adj)

hung up

un porte-jarretelles

garter belt

éreintant (adj)

exhausting

une mante

praying mantis man-eater (fig)

le sevrage

weaning

analphabète (adj)

illiterate

monoparental (adj)

single-parent

la créance

debt

untel (m) Vous savez madame untel...

so and so someone You know, madame so and so...

la dénivellation

slope | putting out of level

un dénivelé | une dénivelée

difference in altitude

crisper se crisper

to tense contort clench tense up

les uns derrière les autres

one after the other

un bourreau

executioner | tormentor

affronter s’affronter

to confront to clash

opérer Quels choix opérer?

``` to operate (surgery) function make ``` What choices to make?

une saynète

sketch | playlet

bavard (adj)

talkative

boutonneux (adj)

pimply

la pénurie

shortage paucity famine

apparenter à s'apparenter à

to be similar to to resemble

décrocher

to pick up the phone to give up (colloq)

un thésard | une thésarde

PhD student

débouché (adj)

open

un débouché

opening market outlet

cloisonner

to partition compartmentalize divide up

ludique (adj)

playful

revêtir revêtir la forme de qqc

to have to assume to take the form of st

friand (adj) être friand de qqc

fond of to be very fond of st

goguenard (adj)

mocking | gently ironic

louper

to miss out on | fail

en vrille

in a tailspin

démesuré (adj)

unbounded | enormous

trépigner

stamp

refoulé (adj)

frustrated | repressed

embrouillé (adj)

muddled | confused

une vétille

triviality | trifle

esquiver

to evade

criser

to freak out | be in a crisis

démuni (adj)

destitute | deprived

le rapport de force

balance of power

apprivoiser

to tame

un proxénète

pimp | procurer

le proxénétisme inculpé de proxénétisme

procurement charged with living off immoral earnings

faire ses griffes

scratch (cat)

intervenant (adj)

interfering

un énoncé

statement (de of) | pronouncement

le support

support | stand

un orfèvre

goldsmith | expert (fig)

l’orfèvrerie

goldsmith’s art

une jacquerie

peasant revolt

maussade (adj)

dull (weather)

galopant (adj)

rampant

un buteur

scorer (soccer)

faire le pont

have a long weekend

palpitant (adj)

thrilling palpitating pulsing

un canif

penknife | pocketknife

Volume 3 Flashcards

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