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Prosaic

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Dull and lacking imagination
(About anything inanimate)

Mnemonic: prose is opposite of poetry which is done with imaginations so prose lacks imagination, hence, prose-aic

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Paucity

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Lack of something

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Maintain

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=to assert

Maintain their innocent
Maintain that a recent finding supports her theory

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Menial

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Subalterne

Menial work: sale boulot

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Contrite

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To be remorseful

Être penaud, consterné, embarrassé

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Remorseful

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Plein de remords

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Triteness

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Banalité

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Malevolent

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Malveillant

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Glee

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Joie

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Swoon

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Se pâmer

Être transporté d’un sentiment vif et agréable, être au comble de l’admiration

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Swoon over

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Se pâmer devant

The physical type a girl can swoon over: le type qu’une fille ne peut résister

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Hunky

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Bien foutu, bien bâti

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Pugnacious

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Pugnace
Qui est combatif,
Verbally combative, aggressively argue about everything

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Spat

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Dispute
Prise de bec
Querelle

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Egregious

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Flagrant

Standing out in a bad way

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Slug

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Ajourner
Renvoyer une action à un autre jour

Ajourner une réunion
Slugged another player

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Flock

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Troupeau

Foule

18
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To be tried

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Être jugé

He be tried in an international court for genocide

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Innocuous

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Harmless , doesn’t produce any ill effect
Inoffensive

These mushrooms look innocuous but are in fact deadly

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Candid

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A straightforward and honest look at something

Être franche, sincère

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Enduring

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Qui dure longtemps

Stable

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Hold back

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Retenir (person, crowd)
Être un obstacle pour (situations conditions)
Garder pour soi (secret)

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Erratic

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Imprévisible (driving)
Fantasque, inconstant (behavior)

1) Unpredictable
2) strange, unconventional

1) The stock market is notoriously erratic.
2) an erratic behavior

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Botch

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Saboter, bâcler

25
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Pundit

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Expert

Spécialiste

26
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Flounder

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Battre de l’aile
Patauger

The attempt foundered

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