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90 Cards in this Set
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le tri
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sorting, selection, grading, sifting
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bluffer
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to bluff, try it on, fool, to impress
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écume (f)
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foam, froth,scum, lather
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un témoin
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witness, evidence, proof
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affliger
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to distress, grieve, afflict
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gazouiller
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to chirp, babble
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Tartempion (inf)
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average joe, nobody
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une cuve
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vat, tank
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papoter
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to chatter
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oser
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to dare, venture
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ulcérer
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to sicken, appall
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un borudon
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bumblebee, great bell
bourdonnant-buzzing |
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une cible
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target
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un costard
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a man's suit
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un éclair
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lightning flash, spark
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un échec
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failure, defeat, setback, breakdown
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une bavure
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smudge, smear, hitch, flaw
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reconter
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to tell, recount
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parer
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to fend off, prepare for, to dress
paré-ready |
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la vacherie
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meanness, rottenness, junk, nasty remark
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tailler
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to cut, carve, prune, trim
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percuter
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to strike, crash into
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balbutier
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to stammer, babble
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la tenue
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upkeep, handling, control, dress, appearance
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talonner
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to follow hot on someone's heels, to hound, spur on
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boiter
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to limp, wobble, to be shaky
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un tampon
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stopper, plug, wad, swap, buffer, tampon
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un routier
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truck driver, truckstop
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temporiser
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to delay, stall, play for time
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encenser
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to flatter, praise excessively
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différer
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to differ, to be different, to postpone
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unique
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unique, one of a kind
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un tac
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tap, clack
inf-taxi |
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tolérer
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to tolerate, endure
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aboutir
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to succeed, to end up
un aboutissement-outcome |
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se biler
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to worry oneself sick, to get worked up
bileux-(inf) easily upset |
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ludique
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playful, recreational
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torpiller
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to torpedo, sabotage
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ficher
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to do, give, put, leave
Je m'en fiche- I could care less |
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supplier
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to bessech, implore, beg
Je vous en supplie-I beg you |
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préalable
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preliminary, previous
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romanesque
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fabulous, fantastical, romantic
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navré
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extremely sorry, très désolée
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une selle
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saddle
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un tabac
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tobacco/stamp shop
faire un tabac-roaring success qqch du même tabac-somehting along those lines-grosso modo |
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subir
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suffer, to be under the influence of
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le bidule
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contraption, thinking, whatchamacallit
Eh bidule!-Hey you! |
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une rubrique
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column, heading, rubric
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tabler
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to count, bank, rely on somenthing
une tablée(hp)-table (of people) |
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baveux
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dribbly, slobbery, runny, blurry
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une averse
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a rain shower, une forte averse-downpour, un evers orageuse-thunder shower. not Il pleut à verse-it's pouring
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tatouer
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to tattoo
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susurrer
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to whisper, chuchoter
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crapoter
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to puff without inhaling
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un machin
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thingie, whatsit, contraption, le bidule
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lugubre
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gloomy, dismal
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un trucmuche
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thingie, un machin, un bidule
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une gamme
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range, variety, product line, music scale
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une veilleuse
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night light, pilot light
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un/une saltimbanque
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acrobat, performer, entertainer
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rudement
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roughly, hard, harshly (inf) very
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vivoter
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to struggle along, scrape by
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affubler
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to wear (esp. something weird)
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déchirée
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torn
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vachard
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mean, nasty, rotten, une vacherie/un mechante-nasty comment
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tarabiscoté
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overly involved, ornate, fussy
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se dessaisir
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to part with, to give away
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gâcher
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to waste, spoil, botch
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vaciller
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to sway, wobble, flicker, falter
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aigre
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sour (taste), shrill (sound)
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indigne
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unworthy,
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un dispositif
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device, mechanism, plan of attack
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une tournure
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turn (of a phrase, events) appearance
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se m'efier
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to distrust, be careful about
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un s'eisme
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earthquake, upheaval, tremblement de terre
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se demander
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to wonder, to ask onself
Je me demande si...... |
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figurer
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to represent, appear
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un parrain
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godfather, sponsor
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saillant
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prominent, protruding, salient
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frapper
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to hit, stab, strike, knock
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semer
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to sow, scatter, strew
la semence-seed |
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le joual
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informal dialect in Quebec
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poignarder
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to stab (frapper)
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sempiternel
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eternal, never-ending
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r'esolu
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resolute, determined
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le secours
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help, aid, assistance
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av'er'e
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known, recognized
il s'avere que...it turns out that.. |
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d'etourner
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to divert, rerout, hijack, embezzle
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e'courter
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to shorten, curtail
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un dirigeant
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leader, ruler, manager
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