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Commenting on a text Flashcards

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contradictoire

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contradictory

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controversial

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controversé

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indubitable

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unquestionable

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concis

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concise

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exhaustif/complet

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exhaustive

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proche/voisin

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close

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franc/carré

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outspoken

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désobligeant

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disparaging

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acerbe

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scathing

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intransigeant

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uncompromising

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non-commital

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réservé

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commited

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engagé

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(un)biased

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(im)partial

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cinglant

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sharp

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perspicace

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acute

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pur

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mere

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frappant

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striking

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spirituel

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witty

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claim

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prétendre

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state

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déclarer

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faire passr/communiquer

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to convey

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révéler

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to expose

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justifier

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to account for

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faire allusion à

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to allude to

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s’étendre sur

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to dwell on

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faire un digression

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to digress

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développer

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to enlarge on

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déduire

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infer

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découler de

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to stem from

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entraîner

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to entail

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oublier/négliger

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to overlook

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préconiser

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to advocate

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élever une objection

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to object

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un compte-rendu

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an account

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un procédé

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a device

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un sujet/problème

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issue

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contradiction

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discrepancy

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portée, l’étendue

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the scope

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insistance/accent

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the emphasis

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allusion

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allusion/hint

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un point essentiel/argument

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a point

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point de vue

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viewpoint

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un parti pris/prejudice

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a bias

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une supposition

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an assumption

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une déclaration

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a statement

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une litote

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an understatement

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un mot d’esprit

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witticism

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une insinuation

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an innuendo

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une expression

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a phrase

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une perspective

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an outlook

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passionant

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exciting

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banal

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commonplace

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guindé

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rebattu/galvaudé

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tiré par les cheveux

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far-fetched

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grandiloquent

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familier

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colloquial/informal

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novelist

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nouvelliste

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short story writer

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caricaturer

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caricature

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supposer

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un poète/une poétesse

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dramaturge

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a playwright

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un critique d’art

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an art critic

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un auteur de bandes dessinées

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a comic writer

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un critique

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a reviewer

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un nègre

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a ghost writer

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une anecote

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an anecdote

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un (court) tableau

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a vignette

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une satire

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une description/peinture

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le plagiat

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plagiarism

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rime

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l’agencement des rimes

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the rhyme pattern

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une strophe

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un roman policier

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a detective story

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un roman noir

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a Gothic novel

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une comptine

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a nursery rhyme

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une anthologie

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a collection of poems

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jeux de sonorités

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sound patterns

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une alliteration

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an alliteration

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une assonance

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an assonance

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narration

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métaphore

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extended/metafor

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récit à la première personne

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first-person narrative

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an interior monologue

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un monologue intérieur

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intrigue

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péripétie

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an episode

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un rebondissement

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a development

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paroxysme

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un trait particulier

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discours direct

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direct speech

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niveau de langue

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argot

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mot à double-entendre

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double-entendre

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jeu de mots

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discours indirect

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reported speech

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mettre l’accent sur

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to lay the emphasis upon

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adresser une critique à

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to level criticism at

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to case for/against

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les arguments pour/contre

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a bare statement of facts

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un simple énoncé des faits

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à première vue

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on the face of it

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the crux/heart of the matter

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le noeud de l’affaire

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point discutable

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moot point

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tout bien considéré

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all things considered

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trompeur

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misleading

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faux

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honnête

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straightforward

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sans rapport

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irrelevant

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exposer

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to expound

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portée/pdv

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intellectual

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un préjugé

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un compte rendu

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an account

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une divergence

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a discrepancy

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supposition

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assumption

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dispute

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litote

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understatement

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mot d’esprit

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insinuation

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outlook

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perspective sur

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banal

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commonplace

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exciting

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passionant

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far-fetched

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tiré par les cheveux

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grandiloquent

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galvaudé

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the text falls into

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le texte se divise en

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aborder

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éveiller l’intérêt

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to arouse someone’s interest

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Cette déclaration a une autre signification moins évidente

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there is more to this statement than meets the eye

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