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Acumen

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Perspicacité

Business acumen: sens des affaires

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Agonizing

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Insoutenable (wait)
Pénible (décision)
Atroce (death)

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Reverence

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=respect

Vénération

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Fastidiousness

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Méticulosité

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Fastidious

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Méticuleux

Délicat

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Didactic

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Didactique

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Didactism

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Faire de façon didactique

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Iconoclast

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1) qui condamne la représentation figurée de personnes divines
2) qui s’attaque à de prétendus tabous ou à des idoles du moment

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Disseminate

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Disséminer, propager (info, fact)

Diffuser (knowledge)

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Deemed

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Jugé, réputé, considéré

You have been deemed an intellectual= vous avez été considéré comme un intellectuel

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Debunking

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Dévoilant

Démasquer

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Bogus

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Faux (asylum seeker)
Bidon (claim)

A bogus marriage = un mariage blanc

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Demanding

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Exigeant
Astreignant
(Person, work)

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Copious

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Copieux, abondant (amount)

He sat in the dock making copious notes

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Acerbic

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=critical (wit, comment, comedy)
-Caustique
Qui est cinglant, blessant

  • Acerbe
    1) Goût aigre et âpre
    2) Cruel, impitoyable (ton, parole, propos)
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Wit

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=wittiness/ Esprit

Witty man= homme d’esprit
To have one’s wits about one= avoir toute sa tête

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Halfwit

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Idiot , imbecile

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Scathing

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Cinglant
Acerbe

To be scathing about thing= être très critique vis à vis de qch

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Stinginess

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Avarice

Radinerie

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Diffidence

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Manque d’assurance

Timidité

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Frugal

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Frugal

Qui se contente de mets simples, peu abondants

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Thrift

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Économie

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Illiberality

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Esprit étroit

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Convoluted

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Alambiqué (argument, sentence, style) =trop subtil, trop raffiné
Complexe

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Avidly

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Avec avidité = désir excessif de posséder

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Tenuous

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Fragile (position, link, connection)

Sans grand fondement (argument)

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Florid

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  • rubicond =teint rouge

- très chargé (style)

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Scarce

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=uncommon, rare peu abondant

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Outnumber

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Surpasser en nombre

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Cluster

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  • n. Petit groupe

- v. Se rassembler

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Offspring

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Progéniture, résultat

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Plutocratic

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Ploutocrate

Celui qui exerce le pouvoir par l’agent et pour l’argent

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Retain

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Conserver (indépendance, freedom, control, title)

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In spite

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Malgré

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Upheaval

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Bouleversement (personal, social)

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Overturn

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Renverser (object, system)
Infirmer (décision)
Se retourner (véhicule)

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Arousal

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Éveil (mental)

Excitation (sexual)

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Attune

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Accorder

Attune oneself = s’habituer

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Forethought

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Prévoyance, préméditation

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Inner-directed

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Individualiste

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Beetle

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Scarabée

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Wariness

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Prudence

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Heightening

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Intensifiant

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Stem

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N. Tige (plant)
Racine (word)

Vb. Endiguer (flow, bleeding) = modérer

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Brain stem

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Tronc cérébral

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Cynical

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Cynique

Désintérêt blasé à l’égard de qqch

47
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Using -ness at the end of a word

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Transforme un adjectif en nom

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Endorsed

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Approuvé

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Disquieting

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Inquiétant

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Reckless

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Imprudent (careless)

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Heedless

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Insouciant

To be heedless of something = ne pas se soucier de qqchose

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Nonchalantly

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Nonchalamment

Mollement, avec abandon

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Wary

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Méfiant

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Unsparing

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Impitoyable

Sans pitié

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Belligerent

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Agressif

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Densely

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Densément

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Ample

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Amplement suffisant

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Output

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Production (industry, writer)

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Thorny

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Épineux (plant, problem)

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Penitential

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Contrit (=repentant, chiffonné, chagriné)

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Patent (adj)

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Manifeste

A patent nonsense
A patent lie

62
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Intractable

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Insoluble (problem)
Incurable (case, disease)

=obdurate / Intraitable

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Obdurate

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Obstiné

Inflexible

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Prolixity

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Prolixité (trop long, diffus, en parlant ou en écrivant)

65
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Impetuous

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Impétueux

Dont la course est violente et rapide

66
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Prodigality

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Prodigalité

Caractère de celui qui est prodigue (= qui distribue en abondance, dépenses déraisonnables)

67
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Volubility

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Eloquence

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Pellucidity

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Clarté

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Extraneous

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Étranger

Extraneous to = qui n’a aucun rapport avec, être étranger à

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Uncritically

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Sans discernement

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Bolster

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Soutenir

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Attainment

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Réalisation (aim)
Obtention
Connaissance (skill)
Résultat (school pupil)

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Utterly

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Complètement

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Hackneyed

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Éculé (démodé) (phrase, expression)

Banal, vu et revu (image)

75
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Intent to

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N. Intention

Adj. Attentif, absorbé

76
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Shore up

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1) (building) étayer

2) (economy) consolider

77
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Ruling

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Au pouvoir

The ruling party= parti dirigeant

78
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Besieged

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Assiégé

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To be besieged with request

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Être assailli de demandes

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Aloof

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Distant

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Placid

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Tranquille

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Restive

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Rétif

Qui s’arrête où qui recule au lieu d’avancer

83
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Skittish

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Nerveux
Capricieux
Frivole (qui n’a nulle importance)

84
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Vociferous

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Bruyant

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To plead for

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Implorer qch

86
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Circumscribe

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Limiter

Circonscrire

87
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Indecorous

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Inconvenant

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Unseemly

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Inconvenant

Unseemly joy/noise

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Yield

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Rendement

Produire

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Fallow

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En jachère

91
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For granted

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Pour acquis

92
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Granted that

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En admettant que

93
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Authorial

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De l’auteur

94
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Stiffen

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Raidir

Durcir

95
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Preclude

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Exclure

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