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Language - French
Undergraduate 2
01/01/2011
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Term
l'argile (f)
 Definition
clay
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une entremise
 Definition
an intervention
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émietter
 Definition
to crumble
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remorquer
 Definition
to tow/drag along
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hormis (pas de petit mot)
 Definition
besides, except for
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se mettre en rogne (se fâcher est plus courant)
 Definition
to get angry
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décevoir (pp: décu)
 Definition
to dissapoint
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serrer
 Definition
to grip
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l'envergure (f)
 Definition
stature, scope
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sans déc?
 Definition
are you shitting me? (or something along those lines)
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redouter
 Definition
to fear, dread
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un(e) stagiare
 Definition
a trainee (ex, student teacher)
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rustre (m)
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noun: peasant
adj: uncouth
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un buisson
 Definition
a bush, shrub
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se faufiler (à l'intérieur, ex)
 Definition
to squeeze/slip/creep in
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une garce
 Definition
a bitch (somewhat milder though)
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digérer
 Definition
to digest, to accept (defeat, failure)
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une causerie
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a chat
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bourdonner
 Definition
to buzz, hum
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puîné
 Definition
younger
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carrément
 Definition
downright
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l'orgueil
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pride
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un farfadet
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an elf
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bouleversant
 Definition
distressing, deeply moving
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une biche
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a doe (can also be a pet name)
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funeste
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fatal (decision, error)
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avoir des couilles
 Definition
to have balls
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largué
 Definition
spaced out (technically, jettisoned)
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un pleurenichard
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a crybaby
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un guet-apens (un guet)
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an ambush (a lookout)
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une rafale de vent
 Definition
a gust of wind
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éclorer
 Definition
to hatch, bloom
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une femmelette
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a wimp
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sécher les cours
 Definition
to skip class
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une échelle
 Definition
a ladder
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un aboiement
 Definition
a barking
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fourrer de
 Definition
to fill with
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un quiproquo
 Definition
a misunderstanding
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épargner
 Definition
to save (money, a person)
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un tesson de bouteille
 Definition
a shard of glass
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envoyer (qqn) bouler
 Definition
to send someone packing
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un effondrement
 Definition
a collapse
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s'appuyer sur/contre
 Definition
to lean on/against
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autant de fois
 Definition
as many times
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une corvée
 Definition
a chore, duty, bore
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une échappatoire (à)
 Definition
a way out (of)
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un réseau
 Definition
a network
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1) en revanche
2) la revanche
 Definition
1) on the other hand
2) revenge
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ainsi
 Definition
thus, like this, so
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sourd(e)
 Definition
deaf
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parsemer
 Definition
to sprinkle
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noircir
 Definition
to blacken, dirty, stain
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à l'insu de (qqn)
 Definition
without (somebody) knowing
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un haillon
 Definition
a rag
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racheter
(se racheter)
 Definition
to buy back, buy more of
(to redeem oneself)
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debout
 Definition
standing
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par rapport à
 Definition
compared with
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un serment
 Definition
an oath
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héberger
 Definition
to take in/put up/accommodate (think housing)
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un gifle, gifler
 Definition
a slap, to slap
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la bienséance
 Definition
propriety
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avoir le hoquet
 Definition
to have the hiccups
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comme tel
 Definition
as such
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un nid
 Definition
a nest
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par mégarde
 Definition
inadvertantly
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fonciérement
 Definition
fundamentally
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or
 Definition
and yet
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un carrefour
 Definition
a crossroads
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chevronné (expérimenté est plus courant)
 Definition
experienced, seasoned
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à peine
 Definition
hardly, barely
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par ailleurs,
 Definition
in addition,
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un naufrage
 Definition
a shipwreck
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soudoyer
 Definition
to bribe
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une fourmilière
 Definition
an anthill
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en outre
 Definition
in addition
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munir de
 Definition
to provide with
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se gaver (de)
 Definition
to stuff oneself (with)
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limitrophe
 Definition
adjacent, bordering
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une bestiole
 Definition
a gross bug
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un couard
 Definition
a coward
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par le truchement de (un truchement)
 Definition
through the intervention of (a medium)
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