Volume 4 Flashcards

(91 cards)

1
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la fange

A

mud

la boue

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redoubtable (adj)

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formidable (esp as an opponent)

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une foire

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fair

public market

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un périple

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journey

voyage of exploration

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5
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un lascar

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sly person

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une pièce à conviction

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evidence (in a trial)

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atermoyer

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to procrastinate

tergiverser

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déraciner

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uproot

extirper

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le greffage

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grafting

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gargouiller

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to gurgle

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11
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grassouillette (adj)

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chubby

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courtauder

courtaude (adj)

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cutting of horses’ tails

shortish

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défriser

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to uncurl   (eg hair)
straighten
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14
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qc à voir avec

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st to do with

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15
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famille d’accueil

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foster family

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forcené

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insane

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une bonniche

une boniche

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skivvy

servant (derog)

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18
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éblouir

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to dazzle

émerveiller

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19
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la verroterie

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glass jewelry

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20
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une ébauche de…

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start of …

ébaucher = to sketch out

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21
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la maussaderie

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sullenness

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22
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alpaguer

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to collar (slang)

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23
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un hosto

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hospital

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déglutir

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to swallow

avaler

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crânement
gallantly
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crâne (adj)
gallant
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la prolixité
prolixity verbosity using too many words
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un/une énergumène
oddball | suspicious character
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histoire de faire
so as to do
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l’obstination
insistance
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tempêter
to rage to whistle (wind during a storm)
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une coulée de lave
lava flow
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puiser dans
take from pull out tirer extraire
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les chips (f,inv)
chips (crisps)
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une tronche
mug (face)
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un meuble en kit
self-assemby furniture (eg Ikea)
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un panier percé
spendthrift
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propre-à-rien
good-for-nothing
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en direction de
toward
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se déhancher se déhancher exagérément
to swing one’s hips to stand with one’s weight on one hip to wiggle one’ hips
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un api
small red apple
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lippu (adj)
full lipped
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un établi
workbench
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un colimaçon
snail escargot
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sur la gauche
on the left
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transparaître
to show through
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une bistouquette
penis
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extorquer
to extort
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s’extasier
to be ecstatic
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le brou
husk | green part of a nut
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un pieu
stake (pointed stick) bed (slang)
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crochu avoir les doigts crochus (idiome)
hook shaped to be tight-fisted
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crever
to puncture percer, perforer
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la crevure
riffraff
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péter péter un câble (idiom)
to break to hit the roof
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péricliter
to be on the decline
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déchu (adj) les Anges déchus
has-been fallen fallen angles
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déterrer
to dig up exhumer
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``` un abruti (adj n m/f) une abrutie ```
moron
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ficher ficher un coup à qn (idiome)
to file to do to be a blow to sb
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échapper aux paparazzi
to escape from the paparazzi
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son téléphone était sur écoute
her telephone was being tapped
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vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre
round the clock
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Elle s’identifiait à elle.
She identified with her
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une pute
whore mean person
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une mégère
shrew | derogatory term for nasty woman
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une trique avoir la trique
erection to have a hard on bander
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à ce qu’elle m’a dit
according to what she told me
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un cerbère
minder | watchdog
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``` un baratineur (adj n m/f) une baratineuse ```
smooth talker
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un tantinet
trifle
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et ainsi de suite
and so on
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sur la bécane
on the machine (informal) | bécane = bicyclette
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une salopette
overalls
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aéré (adj)
airy
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mutin (adj n m)
mischievous
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une tringle
rail | rod (eg for clothes)
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trompeusement
deceitfully deceptively not as it appears
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épars (adj)
scattered
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la cote des actions
stock price
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insidieusement
insidiously
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une lieue
league (measure of distance)
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la déshérence en déshérence
lack of an heir abandonment abandonned
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barbouiller
to smear | daub
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pisseux (adj)
dingy
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un débardeur
tank top
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des savates (f)
old slippers kickboxing (sport)
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un chouchou
cloth-covered elastic for hair pet
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couperosé (adj)
with broken veins
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fêlé (adj)
cracked
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une radasse (derog slang)
slut