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1
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To wrestle with

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Faire face à, se battre contre

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To scrutinize

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Scruter, examiner minutieusement

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Ever-watchful

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Toujours vigilant, toujours sur ses gardes

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To pursue

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Poursuivre

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A good deed

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Une bonne action

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A watchword

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Une devise

=a motto

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A paperweight

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Un presse-papiers

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To comprise

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Comprendre, être composé de

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To utilize

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Utiliser, se servir de

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To distort

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Distordre

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A cubicle

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Un box (de travail)
Une cabine d’essayage
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A stall

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Une cabine de douche

Stalls: les toilettes

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Mandatory

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Obligatoire, imposé

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To pain to

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Peiner à

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15
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Whereby

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Selon lequel

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Allegiance

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Allégance, fidélité

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A tryst

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Un rendez-vous galant

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To draw up

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Rédiger, établir (un plan)

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Hatred

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Haine

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20
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Treasonous

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Traître, perfide

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21
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To nap

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Faire une sieste

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To drag

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Traîner, tirer

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23
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Dreaded

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Craint, redouté

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24
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Wire

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Fil de fer

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A mesh

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Un filet

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To relinquish

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Renoncer à, abandonner

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To agonize (over)

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Se tracasser, se tourmenter pour

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Unmistakably

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Indéniablement

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A malady

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= ailment, illness
Maladie (physique)
Mal (affliction)

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Orthodoxy

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Orthodoxie (=rigueur doctrinale)

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To squelch

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Étouffer, réprimer

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32
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A setting

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Un cadre

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33
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Abundantly

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Abondamment

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34
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A curtain

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Un rideau

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To espouse

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Epouser, embrasser, adhérer à
Se marier (vieilli)
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36
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To alter

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Changer

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37
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To strive

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S’efforcer de, faire tout son possible pour

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38
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Readily

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Rapidement, immédiatement

39
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Staunchly

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=devotedly

Résolument, loyalement

40
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Realization

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Prise de conscience

41
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Falsehood

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Un mensonge

Fausseté

42
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Disseminated

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Disséminé, diffusé

43
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Falseness

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Fausseté (chose)

Hypocrisie (personne)

44
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Noteworthy

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=noticeable

Notable, remarquable, marquant

45
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Mirroring

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Imitation, émulation

46
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Duplicity

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Fausseté, duplicité

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To condemn

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Condamner

48
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Crushed

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Écrasé, broyé

49
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A shortage

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Un manque, une pénurie

50
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Hysteria

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Hystérie

51
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To be assimilated to

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Être assimilé à, être intégré à (un groupe)

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A suit

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Un costume

53
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To suit sb

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Convenir à, aller à quelqu’un

54
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Speculation

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Spéculation, conjecture

55
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To invoke

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Invoquer (to summon)

Faire appel à (to call upon (to help))

56
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War-torn

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Ravagé par la guerre

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A dwelling

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Une habitation, une demeure, un domicile

58
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To capitalize

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Mettre en majuscules
Capitaliser
Apporter du capital
(Selon le contexte)

59
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To be sliced into

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Etre coupe en

60
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A realm

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= a kingdom

Un royaume

61
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Unremitting

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Incessant, ininterrompu

62
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Unobstrusive

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Discret, effacé

63
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Unnoticed

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Inaperçu

64
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Merely

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Simplement, seulement

65
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Intangible

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Intangible

66
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To foil

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Déjouer (un complot)

Contrecarrer (des plans)

67
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(Baking) foil

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Papier aluminium

68
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Vaporized

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Évaporé

69
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To wind up

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Conclure, finir, arrêter

70
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Bitter

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Amer

71
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Musings

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Rêveries

72
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Grim

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Sombre (avenir, visage)
Inébranlable (détermination)
Maussade (temps)

73
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To pour oneself

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Se servir, se verser quelque chose (ex: un verre d’eau)

74
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A pang

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Une crampe, des doulers

75
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To repel sthg/sb

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Quelque chose: repousser

Quelqu’un: rebuter, dégoûter

76
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An encounter

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Une rencontre fortuite

Une confrontation

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Substantive

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Réel, tangible

78
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A foreboding

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Un pressentiment

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Fatalistic

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Fataliste

80
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To depict

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Représenter, dépeindre

81
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Decay

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Déclin, décadence, décomposition

82
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Cabbage

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Chou (légume)

83
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A mat

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Un tapis, un paillaison

84
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Peculiar

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Étrange, bizarre, particulier

85
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Uneasiness

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Malaise

86
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Conversely

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Réciproquement

87
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Comradeship

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Camaraderie

88
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Disbelief

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Incrédulité

89
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A slogan

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Un slogan

90
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Subtle

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Subtil

91
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Ominous

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De mauvais augure

92
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A host of

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Une multitude de

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A motif

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Un motif, un thème

94
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Deceitful

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Malhonnête, déloyal, fourbe menteur, trompeur

English Vocab- Literature Notes (2 decks)

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