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French vocab
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Language - French
Undergraduate 4
10/31/2015
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to maintain/look after
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entretenir
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interview (n)
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l'entretien
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dependence, addiction
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la dépendance
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persuasion
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la persuasion
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to prove
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prouver
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proof
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la preuve
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to solve, find a solution to
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remédier à
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solution, remedy
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un remède
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reinforce, strengthen
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renforcer
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reinforcement
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un renforcement
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disappearance/disappear
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la disparition/disparaître
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elation
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une exaltation
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glorify, exalt
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exalter
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to tip, topple over/swing, tipping over (n)
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basculer/un basculement
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claim, assert (v)/claim, ambition
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prétendre/la prétention
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end, terminate/end, termination
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la cessation
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to swindle sb (out of sth), steal sth (from sb), defraud
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frauder
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fraud/cheating
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la fraude
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agree to, grant/consent, permission
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accorder/un accord
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resign, fire, abdicate/abdication, resignation
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démissionner/une démission
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conclude, finalise/conclusion
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conclure/une conclusion
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to transfer, forward (tech)/ transfer (n)
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transférer/un transfert
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to flatter, pander to/flattery
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flatter/la flatterie
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stake, bet, appearance
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la mise
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taking, dose, sample, plug
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la prise
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arrival, coming
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la venue
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talk about, discuss/speech
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discourir/un discours
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to make up for, counterbalance/compensation
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compenser/la compensation
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repress, restrain/repression, suppression
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réprimer/une répression
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to transform (into sth)/transformation
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transformer (en)/une transformation
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to succeed/success
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réussir/une réussite
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to struggle, try hard, make an effort/effort
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s'efforcer/un effort
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to be up to, belong to, be + poss. adj./affiliation, membership
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appartenir à/une appartenance
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to drive/driving (n)
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conduire/la conduite
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to frustrate/frustration
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frustrer/la frustration
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to defend/defence
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défendre/une défense
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to replace, stand in for/supplement, addition
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suppléer/un supplément
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to force (sb to do sth)/pressure, constraint
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contraindre (qch à qn)/une constrainte
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lawyer, solicitor/confess to
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un avoué/avouer
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illusory
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illusoire
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kindness, goodness
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la bonté
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selfish/selfishness
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égoïste/l'égoïsme
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mediocre/mediocrity
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médiocre/la médiocrité
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misfortune, tragedy
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un malheur
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miser/miserly
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un/avare
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lazy
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fainéant
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un/healthy
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mal/sain
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harmful
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malfaisant
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beneficial
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bienfaisant
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to talk w/sb
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s'entretenir avec qn
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... are not the only ones
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ce n'est pas seulement le fait des ...
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every single one of them
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tous autant qu'ils sont
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as far as I know
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autant que je sache
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more/less/as much of (+N) than/as
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plus/moins/autant de ... que
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all the more because
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d'autant plus ... que
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however, yet
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pourtant
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however, for all that
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pour autant
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to depend on
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dépendre de
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voting paper, ballot
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un bulletin de vote
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such is ...
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tel est ...
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such a ... (person/thing)
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un/e tel/le (personne, chose)
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like father like son
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tel père, tel fils
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to get sb to face up to sth
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mettre qn en face de/face à
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take on responsibility for sth
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assumer la responsabilité de qch
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a crazy person
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un dément
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criminal, burglar
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un malfaiteur
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wrongdoing
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un méfait
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to cause
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entraîner
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to train
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s'entraîner
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decent people
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les braves gens
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pain
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un mal/des maux
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to help sb out
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tirer qn d'affaire
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prevail
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prévaloir
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to attack/blame sb
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s'en prendre à qn
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skilled worker
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l'ouvrier specialisé (O.S.)
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3 eight-hour shift/shift work
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les «trois huit»
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to make a success of one's life/studies
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réussir sa vie/ ses études
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to be successful in life
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réussir dans la vie
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to stop
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cesser de
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fastfood
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la malbouffe
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extenuating circumstances
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des circonstances atténuates
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lead a healthy life
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mener une vie saine
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to exercise
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faire de l'exercice
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to do a sport
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pratiquer un sport
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public property
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les biens collectifs
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to think over
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réfléchir à
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suffer from
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souffrir de
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it is their fault
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la faute leur en incombe
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to be forced to
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être contraint à
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to end with
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se conclure par
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I therefore conclude that
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J'en conclus que
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to heap criticism on sb
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accabler qn de reproches
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to criticise sb for sth
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reprocher qch à qn
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to be under/of age
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être mineur/majeur
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the fact of being of age
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la majorité
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but, and yet
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or
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on the other hand
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en revanche
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from now on
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dès à présent/désormais
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