19 Flashcards

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Godelureau

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Familièrement et par dénigrement, jeune homme d’une conduite étourdie, qui fait le joli cœur auprès des femmes.

Ex: La chambre des comédiennes était déjà pleine des plus échauffés godelureaux de la ville

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Dessiller

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Dessiller les yeux de quelqu’un ou à quelqu’un, le désaveugler, lui faire voir la vérité.

Ex: Le temps dessillera les yeux

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Pythie

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Terme d’antiquité grecque. Prêtresse de l’oracle de Delphes.

Ex: La pythie philippise, disait Démosthène, lorsqu’il se plaignait que les oracles de Delphes étaient toujours conformes aux intérêts de Philipp

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Marmoréen

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Qui a la nature ou l’apparence du marbre. Les calcaires marmoréens.

Ex: Dans sa splendeur marmoréenne Vénus s’enferme sans retour; Et depuis jamais forme humaine N’égala ce divin contour

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To gin up

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to come up with : GENERATE —usually used with up

Ex: gin up enthusiasm

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To trounce

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to defeat decisively

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Reify

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to consider or represent (something abstract) as a material or concrete thing : to give definite content and form to (a concept or idea)

Ex://… a culture can be reified into a body of traditions …

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Tautology

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needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word

Ex: Rhetorical repetition, tautology (‘always and for ever’), banal metaphor, and short paragraphs are part of the jargon.

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Augury

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OMEN, PORTENT

Ex: //” … the best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”

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To Discomfit

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to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : DISCONCERT

Ex: was discomfited by the question

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