FINAL TERM 2 Flashcards

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La centrale

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Power central

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L’approvisionnement en énergie

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Energy supply

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Charbon

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Coal

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La consommation

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Consumption

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La couche d’ozone

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Ozone layer

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Le déboisement

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Deforestation

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Les déchets

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(Nuclear) waste

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Disposer de

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To have available

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À l’échelle mondial

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On a global scale

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L’effet de serre

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Greenhouse effect

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L’énergie éolienne

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Wind power

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En voie de disparition

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Menaced with extinction

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L’essence (f)

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Gas

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Le fioul

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Heating fuel

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La houille blanche

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Hydro-electric power

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Impliquer

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To involve

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L’isolation

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Insulation

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Un organisme

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An organization

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Un panneau solaire

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Solar panel

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Réglementation

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Set of rules

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Renouvelable

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Renewable

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Sauvegarder

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To preserve or safeguard

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Le souci

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The worry or concern

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Stocker

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To stock

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Suffice

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To be sufficient

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User

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To use up

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Aborder

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To approach/ speak to first

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Accablement

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State of emotional devastation or collapse

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À la dérobée

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Quickly or secretly

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À ras bord

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Completely full glass or fed up person

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Creux/l’heure creux

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Hollow/ dead time

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Se décontenancer

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To worry or fret

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Désinvolte

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Natural or at ease

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Dressé

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Standing

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Le feutre (feutré)

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Felt (fabric) or felted (soft sounds)

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Se faufiler

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Slip in or smoothly join a group

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Fléchir

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To yield or stop resisting

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Frayer

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To open up a path to

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Frileusement

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With excessive prudence or reserve

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Lésé

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Offended

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Longer

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To follow the border of

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Lorgner

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To stare (sideways way)

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Un Perron

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Exterior stairs

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Pleurnicher

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To whine

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La rafale

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Rapid gun fire or static

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Se vautrer

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To wallow or abandon oneself completely

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Accoucher

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To have a baby

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Les conjoints (m)

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A Couple

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Enceinte

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Pregnant

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La famille étendue

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Extended family

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La femme au foyer

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Housewife

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La père/ la mère célibataire

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Single parent (father or mother)

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Le rapprochement

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Reconciliation

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Se séparer

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To separate

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Anéantissant

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Completely destructive

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Un aveu

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A confession

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S’accouder

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To lean on or prop oneself up on one’s elbows

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Baveux/euse

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Saliva-y or drool-y

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Briser les reins

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To break the back or destroy

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Le cerne

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Bruise or dark circles under the eyes

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La clarté

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Clarity or a bright light

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La crispation

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Tic

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Éreinté

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Completely exhausted

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Frôler

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To brush or touch lightly

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Fugace

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Fleeting or brief

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Le guet

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Surveillance or look-out

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Hébéter

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Make stupid or daze

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Le linceul

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Shroud

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Par dessus le marché

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On top of the bargain

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Posé

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Poised

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Un repère/un point de repére

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Point of reference

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Rôder

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Lurk

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Séant

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Decent or appropriate

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Sournoisement

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Sneakily

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La supplice

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Torture

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Une surenchère

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Outbid or overbid or a promise to do more

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Verser

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To pour

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Vrombir

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Make the sound a motor makes

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L’allocation (f) familiale

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Family benefit or tax reduction

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Concilier carrière et famille

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Reconcile career and family

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Les fiançailles (f)

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Engagement

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Le machismo

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Male chauvinism

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Les parents proches

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Close relatives

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Prendre sa retraite

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To retire

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Le troisème âge

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Old age

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Veuf/veuve

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Widower or widow

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Arbitre (m) or arbitrer

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Referee or umpire/ to ref

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Le championnat

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Championship

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Le classement

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League rankings

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Le concours

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Competition

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L’entraînement/s’entraîner (m)

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Training or to train

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Dopage

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Illegal performance drug use

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L’épreuve (f)

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Event in track and field

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Un fan(atique)

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Fan

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Marquer

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To score

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Remporter la victoire

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Win or bring home the victory

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Rivaliser

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To compete with

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La sanction

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Penalty

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Les sports à frisson

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Extreme sports

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Les tribunes

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The stands of a stadium

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Les vestiaires

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Locker room

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L’angle de vue (m)

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Point de view

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Une bulle/le phylactère

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Speech bubble

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La case

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Box

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La couche

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Layer (as of paint ink)

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Un croquis/ un crayonné

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Rough preliminary sketch

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Le découpage

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Division of story into squares

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L’encadré narratif (m)

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Box for narrators word’s

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Le faire valoir

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Foil or character that makes the hero look good

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Le gros plan

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Close up or face shot

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Le plan d’ensemble

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Distant view or long shot

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Une planche

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Page of a comic

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La tonalité

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Dominant color

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Le trait

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Line or outline