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Advertorial

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Advertising article

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To gesticulate

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Use your hands when speaking

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To ogle something/someone

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To stare (with sexual intentions)

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Une personne (généralement une célébrité) facile à critiquer

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Fair game for criticism

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To scrutinize

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To analyse criticaly

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Destiny

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Fate

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A pin up

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Someone you want on your wall

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Love between sister and brother

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Sibling

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Sans voix

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Dumbstruck

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Spur-of-the-moment

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Non planifié

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Shy

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Bashful

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To walk slowly or unwillingly when you are tired

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To traipse

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To go into secretly, without being seen

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To sneak

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Short sleep during the day

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Catnap

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The main part of something unpleasant

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The brunt

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Nostalgic

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Viewing the past in a sentimental way

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Drawing quickly

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Sketching

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Moving gently from side to side

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Rocking

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Made an imitation in order to fool people

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To forged

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Weak, Effeminate

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Sissy

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Showed at the cinema for the first time

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Premiered

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Became successful immediately

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Overnight sensation

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Episodes of violent anger

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Fits of rage

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Producing many works

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Prolifically

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A determination that could not be stopped

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Irrepressible drive

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Full of energy - Too much cafeine

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Hyper

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Make an association

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Conjures up the idea of something

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Un genre

Utiliser pour les animaux

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A breed

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Under the spell

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Bewitched

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Omniprésent

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Ubiquitous

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Rapid increase

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Proliferation

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People that are admired world wide

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Cultural icons

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People who have worked to become very rich (through their own talents)

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Self-made people

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Try to be rich and famous

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Seek fame and fortune

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At any moment, we don’t know what will happen next

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Spontaneous uncertainty

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Emotionally very stressful

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Gut-wrenching experience

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A huge number of moving people

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Thronging mass

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Extreme wealth

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Untold riches

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Over-filled with no room for anything else

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Saturated

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Many different products

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Package

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Reflected

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Mirrored

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An incredibly large amount

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Sheer volume

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Wanting too much money and being on TV too often

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Greed and over-exposure

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