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French vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |