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Le Diner de Cons
Vocabulary from Le Diner de Cons
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Language - French
Undergraduate 2
04/27/2011
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Term
un éditeur
 Definition
a publisher
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un tour de reins
 Definition
a backache
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un passe-temps
 Definition
a hobby
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une maquette
 Definition
a model
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une allumette
 Definition
a match
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un répondeur
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an answering machine
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une maitresse
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a mistress
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un stratageme
 Definition
a stratagem
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un quiproquo
 Definition
a misunderstanding
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une soirée
 Definition
an evening
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la betise
 Definition
stupidity
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une meprise
 Definition
a mistake
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un controleur fiscal
 Definition
a tax auditor
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les impots
 Definition
taxes
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un tableau
 Definition
a painting
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un coup de théatre
 Definition
a dramatic turn of events
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une cabine téléphonique
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a phone booth
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la vainqueur
 Definition
the winner
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l'intrique
 Definition
the plot
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rire
 Definition
to laugh
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rire de qqun/qqch
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to laugh at s.o. or s.t.
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amener qqun
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to bring s.o.
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quitter qqun
 Definition
to leave s.o.
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annuler
 Definition
to cancel
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faire une gaffe
 Definition
to blunder
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etre sur le point de + verb
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to be on the verge of doing something
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rendre service a qqun
 Definition
to do someone a favor
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rendre un piege a qqun
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to set a trap for someone
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mentir a qqun
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to lie to someone
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demander a qqun de faire qqch
 Definition
to ask someone to do something
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avouer qqch
 Definition
to confess, admit something
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révéler qqch a qqun
 Definition
to reveal something to someone
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coucher avec qqun
 Definition
to sleep with someone
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humilier qqun
 Definition
to humiliate someone
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se sentir coupable
 Definition
to feel guilty
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avoir du coeur
 Definition
to have a good heart
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hebdomadaire
 Definition
weekly
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méchant
 Definition
mean
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méprisant(e)
 Definition
contemptuous
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dégouté
 Definition
disgusted
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envahissant
 Definition
intrusive
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bienveillant
 Definition
benevolent
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hébété
 Definition
bewildered
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léger
 Definition
light
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divertissant
 Definition
enternaining
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par erreur
 Definition
by mistake
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a cause de
 Definition
because of
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a son insu
 Definition
without him/her knowing
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appeler qqun
 Definition
to call someone
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décrocher
 Definition
to pick up
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raccrocher
 Definition
to hang up
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laisser un messsage
 Definition
to leave a message
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rappeler
 Definition
to call back
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un coup de fil
 Definition
a phone call
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un numéro de téléphone
 Definition
a telephone number
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composer
 Definition
to dial
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la ligne est occupée
 Definition
the line is busy
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un numéro vert
 Definition
a 1-800 number
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l'annuaire
 Definition
the phone book
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etre sur la liste rouge
 Definition
to be unlisted
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les pages blanches/jaunes
 Definition
the white/yellow pages
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un sans fil
 Definition
a wireless phone
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un portable = un mobile
 Definition
a cell phone
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un dialecte
 Definition
a dialect
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l'argot
 Definition
slang
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un idiome
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an idiom
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une langue vivante/morte
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a modern/dead language
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une langue maternelle
 Definition
mother tongue
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une langue étrangère
 Definition
foreign language
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une langue parlée/écrite
 Definition
a spoken/written language
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litteraire
 Definition
literary
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soutenue
 Definition
formal/elevated
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courante
 Definition
standard, everyday
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familière
 Definition
colloquial
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vulgaire
 Definition
vulgar
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grossière
 Definition
coarse
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chatiée
 Definition
polished, refined
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