Volume 6 Flashcards
1
Q
amorcer
A
to bait, prime, initiate
2
Q
encruster
A
to encrust, inlay
3
Q
rétrécisser
un rétrécissement (n)
A
to narrow
a narrowing
4
Q
enjoué (adj)
A
playful
5
Q
pantois (adj)
A
flabbergasted
6
Q
sidéré (adj)
A
flabbergasted, dumbstruck
7
Q
un bredouillement
A
a mumble, splutter
8
Q
morne (adj)
A
drab, doleful, gloomy
9
Q
l’éblouissement (m)
A
dazzle, splendor
10
Q
le dénégation
A
denial
11
Q
ébranler
A
to rattle, shake up
12
Q
les honoraires (mp)
A
fee
13
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exaucer
exaucé (adj)
A
to bestow, grant, fulfill
fulfilled
14
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engueuler
s’engueuler
A
to berate loudly
to have a row
15
Q
une menotte
A
a manacle
16
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à brûle-pourpoint
A
point-blank
17
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une accoutumance
A
a habit, custom, addiction
18
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débloquer
A
to unblock
19
Q
une ride
A
a wrinkle, furrow (on the face)
20
Q
la grosseur
A
thickness, size
21
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classer
classé (adj)
A
to file, classify
indexed
22
Q
chicoter
un chicot
A
to stump
a stump
23
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bousiller
A
to ruin
24
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déborder
A
to boil over, overfill
25
dilapider
to squander
26
un actif
an asset
27
la succession
succession, inheritance
28
combiner
to combine
29
le combiné
handset, receiver
30
la combiné (slang)
monkey business
31
franchir
go through, overcome
32
la paperasse
papers, forms
33
un filtre
a filter
34
la police
policy (insurance)
35
bedonnant (adj)
potbellied
36
hypothéquer
to mortgage
37
repairer
to go to ground, go under cover
38
un repaire
a den, lair, hideout
39
élimé (adj)
shabby, threadbare
40
l'aléas
riskiness
41
inattendu (adj)
unexpected
42
inachevé (adj)
incomplete
43
une courbure
curvature
44
louche (adj)
shady, disreputable
45
râler
grumble, moan
46
acquis (adj)
acquired
47
guère
barely, hardly
48
embellir
to embellish, beautify
49
une atteinte
l'atteinte
from atteindre
```
an attack
the reach (of something)
```
to attain, reach
50
châtain (adj masc.)
Il est châtain
brown, chestnut (for hair)
He has brown hair.
51
une raie
a parting, a streak (as in one's hair)
52
un complet
a suit
53
sobre
sober
54
un quart de travail
shift
55
un bail
les baux
C'est un bail qu'on ne s'est pas vu!
a lease
leases
It's been ages since we've seen each other!
56
le préposé
employee, official, postman, attendant, appointee
57
théoriquement
theoretically
58
l'empressement (m)
willingness
59
clore
to close, complete
60
turlupiner (colloq)
to bother, to bug (as in irritate)
61
acharner
s'acharner
to hound, pursue, track down
to persevere
62
cadrer
to center
| to tally, jibe
63
dévier
to deviate, veer, deflect
64
asséner
to thump, to deal (as a blow)
65
un agacement
an irritation
66
sidérer
to astonish, to stagger (vt)
67
un aveu
| les aveux
confession
| confessions
68
indispensable (adj)
essential
69
sécréter
to secrete
70
tracasser
to worry, bother
71
exposer
to put on display, to make known
72
supputer
to calculate
73
divaguer
to ramble, to rave
74
le chantage
blackmail
75
batifoler
to flirt
76
emboîter
to fit together
77
un mastodonte
mastodon
slang: very big or important person
78
endimancher
endimanché
to put on one's Sunday best
dressed in one's Sunday best
79
rugeux (adj)
rough, raspy, rugged
80
une échéance
due date, expiry date
81
citer
to quote
82
une dépouille
dépouiller
dépouillé (adj)
remains, relic
to skin, strip, deprive
bare, denuded
83
fatalement
inevitably
84
vengeur (adj)
vengeful
85
vengeur (m and f)
avenger
86
parfaire
to perfect
87
propice (adj)
favourable
88
octroyer à quelqu'un
to grant to someone
| to bestow on someone
89
la revanche
retaliation, revenge
90
égarer
to mislead
91
les dépens (m, p)
expense
92
une fougonnette
a delivery van
93
opacifier
to make obscure, opaque
94
la manchette
faire les manchettes
overcuff (clothing)
headlines (of newspaper)
make the headlines
95
une greffe
les cliniques de greffe
```
a graft (biology)
adoption?
```
adoption agency?
96
piétiner
```
to trample on
to stamp (as one's foot)
```
97
viser
to aim
| to intend
98
rentable (adj)
profitable
99
le tier monde
Third World
