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1
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Grivois

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Bawdy

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Ridiculiser / tourner en dérision

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Lampoon

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Détourner

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Deflect

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Joue un rôle important

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is / are instrumental in

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While

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Pendant que / tandis que
Aussi longtemps que (so long as)
Même si / bien que (althought)
Alors que

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Un élément de base

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Staple

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7
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Therefore

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Donc
Par conséquent

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Whose

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A qui
Dont
De qui

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7
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Sentimentalisme

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Emotionalism

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Pamoison / évanouissement

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Swoon

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Irréfutablement

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Unassailably

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9
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Un tâtonnement

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Dabbling

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Tronc

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Trunk

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11
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Lieu central

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Locus

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Se rappeler, se souvenir

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To recollect

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Souterrain

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Subterraneous

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14
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Voûte / chambre des coffres

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Vault

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Hôtel (religieux)

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Altar

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Héritage

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Estate

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“reculer devant”, “fuir devant” ; sinon : “rétrécir”, “se dérober”, “se contracter”

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To shrink

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Contraindre / forcer

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To compel

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Courage
Force d’âme

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Fortitude

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Pénombre

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Dimness

21
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Trembler

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To shudder

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les draps de maison

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linen

23
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en aval du courant

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downriver

24
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Le roman qui caractérise le gothique

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Horace Walpole, whose The Castle of Otranto (1764)

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Eléments du gothique

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1/ Setting in a castle.

2/ An atmosphere of mystery and suspense.

3/ An ancient prophecy (connected to the castle or its inhabitants)

3/ Omens, portents, visions…

4/ Supernatural or inexplicable events.

5/ High, overwhelming emotions.

6/ Women in distress.

7/ Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male.

8/ Metaphor of gloom and horror: howling wind ,footsteps approaching, lights in abandoned rooms, characters trapped in a room, ruins, thunder and lightning, rain, sighs, moans, howls, eerie sounds, clanking chains, doors suddenly slamming, crazed laughter, barking of distant dogs (or wolves?)…

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Morne, gris

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Dreary

27
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Regarder, contempler

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To behold

28
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Travail

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Toil

29
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carreau

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pane

30
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faible lueur, miroitement

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glimmer

31
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insipide

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dull

32
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membre

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limb

33
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misérable

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wretch

34
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s’efforcer de faire qqchose

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To endeavour

35
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brun gris

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dun

36
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flétrir

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Shrivelled

37
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Se volatiliser

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To vanish

38
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teinte, nuance

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hue

39
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linceul, suaire

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shroud

40
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rosée

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dew

41
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volet

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shutter

42
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machoire

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jaw

43
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marmoner

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to mutter

44
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renverser

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overthrow

45
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mauvais

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bad (immoral)

46
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bad synonymo

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base, corrupt, criminal, delinquent, evil, iniquitous, mean, reprobate, sinful, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong

47
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maléfique

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baleful (adj. Menacing)

48
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baleful synonymo

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calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful

49
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funeste fatal

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baneful (adj. ruinous, injurious)

50
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synonymo baneful

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deleterious, destructive, disastrous, fatal, malefic, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous

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