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Nicely Associated Flashcards

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Honesty

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Brutally honest

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Danger

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Impending danger

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Honesty

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“honesty is the bedrock of a good relationship”

the fundamental principles on which something is based.

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Politesse

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Blessante politesse

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Jalousie

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Dévorante jalousie

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Instruction

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Posséder

Immense instruction

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Silence

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Silence limpide

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Entretien

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Entretien morne

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Sommeil

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Il dormait d’un épais sommeil

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Pensées

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Obtuses

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Insistance

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Une amicale insistance

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Souvenir

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Souvenir ténébreux

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Town

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Urban sprawling township

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Confiance

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Une puérile confiance

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Pudeur

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Une invincible pudeur

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Breast

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To wolf at her breast

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Compliance

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Enforced compliance

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Restraint

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A slim restrain

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Accent

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A reproachful accent

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Greetings

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Boisterous greetings

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21
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Life

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The taste of life was stale on her lips

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Woes

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Distanced from her financial woes

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Correspondence

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Her efforts to unravel her tangled correspondence

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Social/ household

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Household drudgeries corvées ménagères

It’s sheer drudgery une vraie corvée

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Conversation

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A flagged conversation

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Hands

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“Her hands flitted above the tray”

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Glimpse

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Fleeting glimpses, with long submergences between (the house of Mirth)

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Attention

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Keen undivided

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Jalousie

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Une jalousie féroce

30
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Responsabilité obligation

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Une responsabilité écrasante +

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Stratagème

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Intellectuel

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Désaccord

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Dissonance Cognitive

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Divide

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The digital divide

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Politesse

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Une blessante politesse

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Communication

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A communication embargo

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Habit

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The tyranny of habit

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Raisonnement

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Raisonnement exsangue

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Heures

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Heures ferventes

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pensées

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Enchevêtrement de pensées

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Oreilles

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aux lobes aplatis et pendants,

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étreinte

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Docile étreinte

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une éloquence

une ignorance monumentale

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une éloquence inattendue

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une précision

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Une précision militaire

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calendrier

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calendrier inflexible

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ignorance

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une ignorance monumentale

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Visage

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Visage fardé à la perfection

47
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Romantic

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It’s painfully romantic

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flaw

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woefully flawed

Although our intuitions can be immensely useful for generating hypotheses to be tested using rigorous research methods, they’re often woefully flawed as a means of determining whether these hypotheses are correct (Myers, 2002; Stanovich, 2007).

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The world & the human brain

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To a large extent, that’s probably because the human brain evolved to understand the world around it, not to understand itself, a dilemma that science writer Jacob Bronowski (1966) called “reflexivity.” Making matters worse, we often cook up reasonable-sounding, but false, explanations for our behaviors after the fact (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977). As a consequence, we can persuade ourselves that

50
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Psycomythology & its seduction

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One reason we’re easily seduced by psychomythology is that it jibes with our common sense: our gut hunches, intuitions, and first impressions. Indeed, you may have heard that most psychology is “just common sense” (Furnham, 1983; Houston, 1985; Murphy, 1990).

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Host Denis Prager talk show

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“There are two kinds of studies in the world: those that confirm our common sense and those that are wrong.” Prager’s views regarding common sense are probably shared by many members of the general public.

Use your common sense. Whenever you hear the words “studies show”— outside of the natural sciences—and you find that these studies show the opposite of what common sense suggests, be very skeptical. I do not recall ever coming across a valid study that contravened common sense. (Prager, 2002, p. 1)

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Ears

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I don’t want to inflict your ears a botched feedback :

(of a task) carried out badly or carelessly.
“a botched attempt to steal a car”

with an indulgent ear

53
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Clichés

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dingy clichés….

gloomy and drab.
“a dingy room”

54
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(Le) ton….

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Ton péremptoire

55
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Emotion

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I can’t support your emotional handicap

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Existence

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Une existence brumeuse

57
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(The) habit

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The tyranny of habit

58
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keep something a secret.

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“keep it under your hat is the golden rule for top chefs when it comes to sharing culinary secrets”

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Contrôle

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“Contrôle coercitif”

60
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Dénoncer comme vil, méprisable.
Traiter quelqu’un, quelque chose avec beaucoup de mépris.

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Villipender

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Savoir

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Savoir Encyclopédique

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Licence

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Licence assumée Liberté excessive qui tend au dérèglement moral ; ce qui est licencieux, contraire à la décence.

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Narration (Français)

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Une narration prégnante de vérité. ». Qui s’impose à l’esprit, qui produit une forte impression.
2. Qui s’impose fortement, en parlant d’une structure perceptive et dans le contexte de la Gestalttheorie

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A short joke or witty remark

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“Paltry” one-liner

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66
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Morality

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heavy-handed morality

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Heel

English can be such an intractable heel, especially when it comes to its spelling

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intractable heel
Talon d’Achille

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