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French vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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les manigances (f,pl) | monkey business; crooked deal |
sévère | severe; stern; strict; hard (climate) |
le rappel | reminder; recall (politics); curtain call; back-motion; back pay; booster shot |
le rappel à l'ordre | to call to order |
rappeler | to recall (politics); call back; remind |
se rappeler | to recall; remember |
rapiécer | to patch, mend |
trier | to sort (out) |
les déchets (m, pl) | scraps; waste; trash; dregs, scum |
réussir | to succeed; make a success of; pass (exam) |
la magnétoscope | VCR |
être au bon service | to have a good connection (phone) |
ma batterie est à plat | my battery is (going) dead |
plutôt | rather, sooner; somewhat; quite |
plutôt que | rather than; sooner than |
le serpent à sonnettes | rattlesnake |
le serpent à lunettes | cobra |
le hochet | rattle; toy (fig) |
hocher la tête | to shake or nod one's head |
j'avais pu renoncer à jouer la clarinette | I had to give up playing the clarinet |
ne faire semblant de rien | pretend to take no notice; act the innocent |
faire semblant de + inf | to pretend to + inf |
faire semblant de + ger | to make a show of + inf |
la toupie | top (toy) |
le concret | concrete |
concréter | to solidify |
concrétiser | to materialize |
ramener | to bring/take back; restore; reduce; draw up, pull back |
se ramener à | to come down to, be nothing more than |
ramer | to row |
amener | to bring, take; bring about, cause; bring up |
s'amener | to show up, turn up |
le trajet | path, way, route; ride, flight (aviation) |
le trajet de plus direct | the most direct path |
affirmer | to assert, contend; assert (authority) |
s'affirmer | to assert oneself |
affleurer | to make even or flush; to come to the surface |
superposer | to superimpose |
les lits superposés (m,pl) | bunk beds |
passer par | to go through |
où est-il passé | where did he go? |
passons! | let's skip it! |
passons aux choses sérieuses | Let's turn to serious matters |
passer un coup de fil à qqn | to phone s.o. up |
passer qch en fraude | to smugger s.t. |
se passer | to happen |
se passer de | to do without |
tracer | to draw; write; open up (route) |
la trachée-artère | windpipe |
la trace | trail; tracks |