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106 Cards in this Set
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furniture
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le mobilier
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door, wingun
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un battant
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wheedling, smooth-spoken
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enjôleur
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stamp
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un timbre
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ringing
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le tintement
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door panel
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un vantail (Pl. vantaux)
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be framed
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s'encadrer
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doorjamb
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le chambranle
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wet-nurse
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une nourrice
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mocking
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goguenard
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to sneer, snigger
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ricaner
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to summon, call
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convoquer
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to change one’s mind
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se raviser
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in motion
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en branle
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to grumble
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maugréer
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reluctantly
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comme à regret
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bitch
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une garce
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long ago
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jadis
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good-for-nothing
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propre-à-rien
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to look after, watch
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veiller
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many
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maintes
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to prowl, lurk, stalk, hover
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rôder
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to shake
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secouer
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schoolboy jacket
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un veste de collégien
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folded
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rabattu
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leather shoes
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souliers vernis
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varnished
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vernis
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to link, join
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relier
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devancer
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to forestall; outpace, overtake
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joy
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l’allégresse (f.)
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to handle, wield (like manipulate)
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manier
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carefully, cautiously, gingerly
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avec précaution
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gruff, brusque, abrupt
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bourru
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to snort
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ronchonner
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a kid
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un gamin
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to stumble, bump
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buter
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to hurry (up), hasten
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se dépêcher
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the sting
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la piqûre
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to knit
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tricoter
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a wild boar
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un sanglier
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lulling, sleep-inducing
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endormant
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the eve, the day before
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la veille
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waking hours
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les heures de veille
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at the discretion of
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au gré de
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furtively, stealthily
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à la dérobée
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removal, movement, shift (also moving house)
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un déplacement
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to smolder, incubate, nurse
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couver
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to recover, recuperate; to heal, cure
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guérir
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dove
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une colombe
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antiquated, outdated thing (sense of obsolescence)
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une vieillerie
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to sulk
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bouder
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to catch up, make up; to recapture, regain; to overtake, overhaul
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rattraper
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to throw one's arms around someone
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sauter au cou de qqn
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the noise (in general, not a specific noise)
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le vacarme
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the cheers
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les hourras
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firecracker
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un pétard
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the humour, drollery
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la drôlerie
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to hum, croon, warble
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chantonner
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scathing, stinging
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cinglant
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prophecy
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la prophétie
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a start, jump, jolt, burst
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un sursaut
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cursed
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maudit
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groping, blindly (in the dark)
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à tâtons
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to collide, run into
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se heurter
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the crash, roar, din
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le fracas
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algae
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une algue
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a knife
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un couteau
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to crawl, creep
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ramper
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in the throes of, prey to
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en proie à
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to tap, pat
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tapoter
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a swamp
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un marécage
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to frame
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encadrer
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fed, fueled
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nourri
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showman, fairground
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forain
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rubbish, junk
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la pacotille
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outdated
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désuet
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to recede, taper, trail off
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s'estomper
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mute
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sourdine
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a squad
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une escouade
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puny, sickly
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chétif
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a broom
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un balai
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a shovel
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une pelle
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roadman (street sweeper?)
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un cantonnier
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to ward off, parry
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parer
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the cheers
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les vivats
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to toast (drink)
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trinquer
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stricken
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accablé
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insane, demented
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démentiel
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the torment, agony, ordeal; punishment
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le supplice
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to spy on, watch
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épier
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to tear
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s'arracher
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to blaze
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flamboyer
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plaid jacket
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une veste à carreaux
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sentry
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une guérite
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headphones
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un casque d'écoute
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to sputter
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toussoter
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a shooting gallery
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un tir forain
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a slide, a gate
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une coulisse
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hoarse, husky
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rauque
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urinal
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une vespasienne
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grudge, resentment, rancor
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la rancune
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to hang
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pendre
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jubilation
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la liesse
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a waffle
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une gaufre
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a bugle
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un clairon
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a carousel
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un manège
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