Volume 3 Flashcards by Ken Wodlinger

enfourcher

to mount

straddle

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faire part de qqc à qn

to inform sb about st
announce to sb about st

(many related locutions)

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enduire

to coat

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infime (adj)

minute
tiny
lowly

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guindé (adj)

stiff
starchy
stilted

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permuter

to swap

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un jupon

courir le jupon

petticoat
underskirt

to womanize

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un classement

ranking
rating
standing

table

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la empeigne

upper (of a shoe)

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un ourlet

hem

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une ordonnance

arrangement
layout   (room)

prescription (med)

order (law)

orderly (military)

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l’eau de vie

brandy

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relever

relever de

to stand up again
to raise, elevate
collect
relieve 
pick up   (signals)

to pertain to

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un fourré

undergrowth

thicket

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la louange

praise

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racoleur (adj)

enticing

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pudibond (adj)

prudish

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susceptible (adj)

susceptible de

sensitive
susceptible

likely to

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faucher

to mow down

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une ogive

warhead

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à bâtons rompus

parler à bâtons rompus

aimlessly

to talk about this and that

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attenter à

attack

make an attempt on

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un pointillé

dotted line

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un coup de raide

a stiff shot (of alcohol)

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je me fous en rogne

I don’t care

comme à l’accoutumée

as is customary

survenir

to come up arise occur

quiconque

whoever anyone who whomsoever anyone, anybody

braconnage

poaching

un frêne

ash tree

un manquement

breach | infringement

maladif (adj)

unhealthy | pathological

ériger

to erect | put up

un signalement

description

allouer à qqn

to allocate to sb

l’étiage (m)

low water mark

un casse-pieds

pain in the neck

un extincteur

fire extinguisher

invoquer

invoke call upon appeal to refer to

un connaissement

bill of lading

astiquer

to polish | wax

salle des pas perdus

waiting room

franc du collier

straight as a die

bourré (adj)

crammed full

arborer

to display | raise

de vive voix

in person | verbally

marauder

to pilfer prowl around cruise for fares (taxi)

relever de (eg, l’autorité de...)

to come under (the authority of...)

un râtelier

luggage rack

un bigoudi

roller (hair) | curler

suffire

to suffice

comme un coq en pâte

in clover

affalé (adj)

slumped

un madrier

timber | beam

la volige

lath

une traverse

sleeper (construction) | crossbar

un boulon

bolt

un traînard | une traînarde

straggler slowpoke laggard

avoir tort sur toute la ligne

to be all wrong

troisième à partir de la gauche

third from the left

un minuteur

timer

fileté (adj)

threaded (eg pipe thread)

fileter

to thread | fillet

le chatterton

adhesive tape

abraser

to abrade

abandonné à lui-même

left to itself | on its own

avoir pour but...

is to...

une épissure

splice

en veilleuse

dimmed

une solive

joist

crayeux (adj)

chalky

bourré à craquer

full to bursting

la contestation

protest

touffu (adj)

thick | bushy

le hêtre

beech tree

vicinal (adj)

rural

bidonville

shanty town

à reculons

backwards | reluctantly

un évêque

bishop

un calicot

banner

à califourchon

astride

un terre-plein

median

le goudron

asphalt | blacktop

un cierge

candle (in church)

le venin

venom

exaucer

to grant bestow fulfill

un meneur | une meneuse

leader | agitator

la chienlit

havoc | chaos

une pale

blade vane paddle

une scolopendre

centipede

marécageux (adj)

marshy

esquinter (slang)

to damage | wreck

un talus

embankment

une trique

cudgel

ruser

to use cunning

prélasser | se prélasser

to lounge lie down recline

plan rapproché

semi-close-up

exigu (adj) | exiguë

cramped

Volume 3 Flashcards

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