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128 Cards in this Set
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weekly
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hebdomadaire
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to delay
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décaler
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before
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auparavant
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to be about to do something
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être sur le point de faire qq chose
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to knit
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tricoter
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The essential thing is...
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L'essentiel est que...
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The fun thing...
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Le comique de l'histoire...
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in the air
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en l'air
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in the absence of...
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en l'absence de...
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in the year...
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en l'an...
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in honor of...
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en l'honneur de...
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Most of the time
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la plupart du temps
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Many people...
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Bien des gens...
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to bring to a happy ending
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mener à bonne fin
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with open arms
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à bras ouverts
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for certain
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à coup sûr
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completely
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à fond
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on one's knees
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à genoux
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marvelously
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à merveille
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hardly
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à peine
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into perpetuity
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à perpétuité
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the wrong way
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à rebours
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backwards
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à reculons
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feeling one's way
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à tâtons
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in time
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à temps
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on the ground
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à terre
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wrongly
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à tort
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randomly
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à tort et à travers
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rightly or wrongly (wave your hands in the air expression)
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à tort ou à raison
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for life
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à vie
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to try X in vain
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avoir beau X
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to remember correctly
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avoir bonne mémoire
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to be aware
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avoir conscience
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to not be able to wait to
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avoir hâte de
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to care for
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avoir soin de
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to have a soft sport for
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avoir faible pour
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bad luck
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malchance
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satisfied
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contenté
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cattle
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le bétail
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to have faith in
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avoir foi en
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to pity
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avoir pitié de
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a terrible fear
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une peur bleue
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a fistful
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une poignée
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the farmyard
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la basse-cour
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rabies
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le rage
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an atheist
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un athée
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a trophy
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un trophée
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a dining-hall
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un réfectoire
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a coat-of-arms
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un blason
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a buffalo
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un bison
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a mink
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un vison
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a poison
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un poison
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a murmur
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un murmure
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an interrogation
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un interrogatoire
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an audience
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un auditoire
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manners (habits)
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les moeurs
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manners (behavior)
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la conduite
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the moral code
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la morale
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progress
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des progrès
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statistics (the field)
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la statistique
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statistics (data)
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des statistiques
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Administration
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le cabinet
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Air Force
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l'armée de l'air
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the crew
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l'équipage
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the clergy
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le clergé
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the Navy
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la marine
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the personnel
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le personnel
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the surrounding area
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les alentours
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the down payment
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les arrhes
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the ruins, debris
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les décombres
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expenses
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les dépenses
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chess
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les échecs
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engagement
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les fiançailles
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funeral
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les funérailles
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handcuffs
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les menottes
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talks (for a treaty)
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les pourparlers
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food reserves
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les vivres
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a chisel
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un ciseau
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scissors
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des ciseaux
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a spyglass
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une lunette
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ancestor(s)
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aïeul/aïeux
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a callous
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un cal
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a stake
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un pal
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lease(s)
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bail/baux
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coral(s)
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corail/coraux
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enamel(s)
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émail/émaux
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air hole(s)/cellar window(s)
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soupirail/soupiraux
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leaf(ves) of a folding door
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vantail/vantaux
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stained-glass window(s)
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vitrail/vitraux
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baby-carriage
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landau
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louse/lice
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pou/poux
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blessed
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béni/bénite
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benign
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bénin/bénigne
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funny (m/f)
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rigolo/rigolote
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lame/shaky
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bancal
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scarlet
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écarlate
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tawny
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fauve
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abruptly
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net
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sweater
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candail
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to dig
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creuser
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the hole
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la fosse
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to grind
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broyer
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to give, deliver (a violent blow)
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assener
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to conceal
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celer
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to chisel
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ciseler
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to notice
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déceler
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to thaw
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dégeler
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to freeze (weather)
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geler
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to pant
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haleter
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to hammer
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marteler
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to lead
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mener
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to model
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modeler
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to withhold
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prélever
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to hide stolen goods
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receler
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to move violently, actively
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se démener
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to admit, agree
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convenir que
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to suit
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convenir
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a sum
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un somme
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political issues
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enjeux
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As for, about
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Quant
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vague attempt
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velléité
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vise
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étau
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markedly
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nettement
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the campaign
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la campagne
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to govern
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gouverner
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the pollster, interviewing police officer, or interviewer (m/f)
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l'enquêteur, l'enquêtrice
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a lapel pin
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une épinglette
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aggregated demand
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demande agrégée
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