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42 Cards in this Set
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à tue-tête |
at the top of one's voice |
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ensevelir |
to bury |
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tonnant |
thundering |
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aviser |
to inform |
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suinter |
to ooze (to flow or leak out slowly) |
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excédé |
exasperated |
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sentencieux |
sententious, moralizing |
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intarissable |
inexhaustible, unlimited |
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un charnier |
mass grave |
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un arête |
(fish) bone |
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un délassement |
way of relaxing |
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une ficelle |
piece of string |
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un lacet |
a (shoe)lace |
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utérin |
uterine (of the same mother) |
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coquettement |
elegantly, stylishly |
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essouffler |
to make breathless |
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une effusion |
outpouring, outburst |
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avoir les yeux cernés |
to have (dark) rings under one's eyes |
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un guet |
watch |
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brandir |
to brandish, to wave (about), to flourish |
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être vexé |
to be hurt or offended |
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un renfort |
reinforcement |
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flancher |
to give out, to fail |
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tabler |
to bank or to count on |
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une engeance |
scum, trash |
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congénère
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congeneric (member of the same kind, class, or group) |
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un taillis |
coppice (a thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for bark) |
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des agissements |
machinations, schemes |
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péter |
to fart |
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un choléra |
cholera |
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ramper |
to creep, to crawl |
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scier |
to saw |
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le zénith |
the zenith, (the highest point reached in the sky by the sun, moon, etc) |
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ergoter |
to quibble |
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un brigand |
bandit, brigand, crook, thief |
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un couchant |
a sleeper |
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une cariatide |
caryatid |
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au juste |
exactly |
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bourrer quelqu'un de coups |
to beat somebody (up) |
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un fossoyeur |
gravedigger |
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des fers |
irons, shackles |
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une sourdine |
mute |
