From these 31 words, as many per round as you like — up to all of them: first what is due today, then new ones. First you choose, then you fill the gap, then you write it yourself. Mistakes come back again shortly.
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The list for the vocabulary of a hospital. The last entry is le poumon, and it shows something about English rather than about French. English has a Germanic noun, « lung », and then every adjective and compound the clinic uses is Latin or Greek: « pulmonary », « pneumonia », « pulmonologist », « pulmonary embolism ». The two halves of the vocabulary do not meet, so a reader who knows the adjective cannot get to the noun or the other way round. French runs both on one root — le poumon and pulmonaire, la pneumonie — and the whole family is visible at once. That is the general shape of English medical vocabulary: « heart » beside « cardiac », « kidney » beside « renal », « liver » beside « hepatic ». So the profit here runs one way: an English reader already owns le poumon through « pulmonary », and has never been able to use it.
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traiterto treatVerbB1
On traite l’inflammation avant l’opération.The inflammation is treated before the operation.
léserto damage (tissue)VerbB1
La chute a lésé le ligament.The fall damaged the ligament.
souffrirto sufferVerbB1
Elle souffre du dos depuis l’hiver.She has suffered from her back since the winter.
orienterto refer (a patient)VerbB2
Le généraliste oriente le patient vers un confrère.The GP refers the patient to a colleague.
