French vocab - A

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attentivement = avec soin
carefully
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l'aumônier
chaplain/confessor
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aussitôt
immediately/straight away
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un arrière-plan
background
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affamé
famished, starving
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l'aisance
fluency (of a language)
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apparemment
apparently
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assorti(e)(s)
matching
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une agitation
a hustle
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avaler
to swallow, devour, eat
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une assiette
a plate(ful)
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une abeille
a bee
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d'ailleurs
what's more
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appuyer
to lean
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attrapper l'autobus au vol
to catch the bus as it's moving (old-fashioned bus)
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allumer une bougie
to light a candle
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l'autoroute
the motorway
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arrêter de fumer
to give up smoking
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à ce stade
at this point
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l'ascèse
Asceticism (frugal + austere lifestyle)
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s'attendre à qch / ce que + verb
to expect
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l'armée
army
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les arrière-grands-parents
great grandparents
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arpenteur
wanderer
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arpenter
to pace up and down, wander
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aisé
easy, well off
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s'avérer
to prove to be, turn out to be
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actionner
to activate
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aller vers
to walk up to
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s'approcher de qch/qqn
to walk up to sb/sth
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à l'abri de
sheltered from
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d'après qqn
according to/adapted from
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assujettir qqn à qch

to subject someone to something

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adroitement
adroitly, skilfully
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agioter
to speculate, venture
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l'avant-hier
the day before yesterday
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avoir des dettes
to be in debt
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ne pas arrêter de faire qch
to keep doing sth
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les affaires
possessions
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agile
nimble
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aduler
idolise
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l'alto
viola
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l'auriculaire (masc)
little finger
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l'anévrisme
aneurysm
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s'affairer
to busy oneself
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abriter
to shelter
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l'arrêt de bus
bus stop
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l'abattoir
slaughterhouse
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abattre
to kill (an animal), to fell (a tree)
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une auto-école
a driving school
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une arrière-pensée
a second thought, an ulterior motive
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l'arrière-plan
background
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un arc-en-ciel
a rainbow
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s'agenouiller
to kneel (down)
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astiquer
to give sth a scrub, polish, scrub
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armer ses pistolets
to load one's guns
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l'aviron (masc)
rowing, oar
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avoir la chair de poule
to get goosebumps (from the cold)
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avoir des frissons
to get goosebumps (from emotion)
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l'amoncellement
pile, heap
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affûter
to sharpen, hone
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avoir beau + inf
to do something in vain, no matter how much...
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l’autel (masc)

altar

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agrément à qch

consent/approval

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amalgamer

to unite, combine, add, amalgamate

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s’armer de patience

to have/summon up patience

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affectueux/euse

affectionate

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acheminer

to dispatch, send, transport, lodge, put in

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en amont

upstream, uphill

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actionner

to operate, activate

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associatif/ve/s

community (adj)

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la médecine douce

alternative medicine

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l’armoire à glace

wardrobe with a mirror, a tank (well-built man [informal])

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avilir

to debase

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accabler

to condemn, damn

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un âne

donkey

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s’accoter contre/à

to lean against/on

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avoir mal à la tête

to have a headache