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  1. revendiquer.
    claim.
  2. revendiquer un ranc,on.
    claim (demand) a ransom.
  3. revendiquer une acte terroriste.
    claim (responsibility for) a terrrorist act.
  4. tomber dans les pommes.
    faint
  5. haute comme 3 pommes.
    knee high.
  6. paire.
    even.
  7. impaire.
    uneven/odd.
  8. le ravisseur.
    kidnapper.
  9. le rapt.
    kidnapping, abduction.

    • exiger.
    • demand.
  10. un escarpe/.
    steep, craggy.
  11. un accrochage.
    clash, dispute.
  12. une fronde.
    litt: sling; civil war, revolution.
  13. un frondeur.
    a rebel, a contrarian.
  14. pour ce qui est de.
    in regards to, regarding.
  15. la gyne/ce/e.
    gynaecum (harem).
  16. dire le quatre verite/s.
    to tell the naked/unvarnished truth.
  17. un atout.
    a trump, advantage, virtue.
  18. ne/vralgique.
    neuralgic
  19. centre ne/vralgique.
    nerve center.
  20. e/\tre noir.
    to be drunk.
  21. une fleur bleue.
    romantic, naive.
  22. le tolle/.
    outcry.
  23. le berceau.
    the cradle.
  24. octroyer.
    to grant.
  25. ale/atoire.
    random, uncertain, unpredictable.
  26. un ale/a.
    hazzard, vagary, risk.
  27. re/dhibitoire.
    • crippling, prohibitive, deal-breaker.
    • unacceptable.
  28. un de/charge.
    dump.
  29. une casse.
    junkyard.
  30. le de/tritus.
    junk, trash, debris.
  31. camp de fortune.
    makeshift camp, improvised shelter.
  32. salubre.
    unsanitary, unhealthy.
  33. le poignet.
    wrist.
  34. la poigne/e (de porte).
    door handle;
  35. la oigne/e.
    handfull, fistfull.
  36. la poigne/e de main.
    handshake.
  37. serrer le main.
    shake hands.
  38. a\ la force du poignet.
    by your own effot.
  39. l'aine/.
    oldest.
  40. le doyen.
    elder, dean, head of faculty.
  41. le cadet.
    the youngest.
  42. le Benjamin.
    the youngest.
  43. pro/\ner.
    advocate, extol.
  44. acclame/.
    celebrated.
  45. la cohue.
    crowd, crush, scramble.
  46. de/nouement.
    outcome, conclusion.
  47. la citrouille.
    pumpkin.
  48. la friandise.
    candy, sweet, confectionary.
  49. \a la nuit tombe/e.
    at twilight.
  50. clairseme/.
    • scattered.
    • (thin, sparse, wispy).
  51. parsemer.
    • scatter, strew, sprinkle.
    • pepper, season.
  52. e/parpille/.
    strewn.
  53. joncher.
    • cover, blanket,
    • be strewn with,
    • be scattered across.
  54. un veau.
    • calf, veal.
    • fig: clunker car.
    • fig: clod, slow person.
  55. la contrefac,on.
    counterfeit, forgery.
  56. un faussaire.
    forger, counterfitter.
  57. un contrefacteur.
    forger.
  58. exce/dentaire.
    in excess, extra.
  59. calcine/.
    charred.
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