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1
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Blunt

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Not sharp

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Basement

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Room under your house

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Cellar

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Room to keep wine

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Attic

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Room inside-under your roof

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5
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Can’t stand

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Detest-dislike

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Ladybird

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Coccinelle

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Gate-crasher

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Someone who is not invited to a party but comes anyway

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8
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To outline

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To explain only the main pints

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9
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To expose - to cover

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Something that wants to be hidden

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10
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Curtains

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Drapes

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11
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A block

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A man

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12
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Therefore

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Donc

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13
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Moreover

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De plus

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14
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Nevertheless

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Néanmoins

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15
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In order to

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Afin de

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16
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However

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But

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17
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Furthermore

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In addition

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18
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Awe

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Feeling a great resent

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19
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…in awe of something

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Context

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20
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Setting down

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A place where you want to get married, to have children and live

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21
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Remote village

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A village far away from a big city

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22
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Quaint

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Small, cute

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23
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To long for something

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= to miss

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24
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Roomy

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Spacious

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25
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Leg room

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Too much space

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26
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A bouncer

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Security guy

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27
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Cutthroat businessman

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We do it in his way or don’t do it at all

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28
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Light sleeper

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Someone who wakes up easily

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29
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To sleep like a log

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Someone who has a heavy sleep

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30
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To rumble

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To make a long deep sound or series of sounds

E.G my stomach keeps rumbling

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31
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To giggle

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To laugh in a silly way because you are nervous or embarrassed
E.G she should sto giggling

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32
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To whine

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To complain in an annoying crying voice

E.g the child kept whining

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33
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To whinge

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To complain about sb or smth in an annoying way

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34
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To sigh

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To take and then let out a long deep breath that can be heard

35
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To wail

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To make a long loud high cry because you are sad or in pain

36
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To buzz

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To make a continuous low sound

E.G a fly

37
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To oink

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Sound of pigs

38
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To groan

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To make a long deep sound because upset, sad, in pain

39
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To snore

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Noise that people do when they sleep

40
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To shudder

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To shake because you are cold or of a strong feeling -> disgusted by something

41
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To stutter

A

Bégaier

42
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To tremble

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To shake when you are scared

43
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To shiver

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To shake when you are cold

44
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To cough

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Tousser

45
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To litter

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To throw small garbage (cigarette) onto the street

46
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Social

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Field
Topic
Type
E.G social network

47
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Sociable

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People who love being around people

48
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Something is in disused

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Something not used anymore

49
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To spread

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To give, to provide

50
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Innate

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Inborn = a quality that you have when you are born

51
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Contempt

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Disrespect

52
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Concede

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Admit

53
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Grave

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Very serious

54
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Demeanour

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Behaviour, manner

55
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Anguish

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Suffering = sever pain or mental suffering

56
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Pothole

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A large rough hole in the surface of a road due to bad weather

57
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To dread doing smth

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To describe smth you hate doing

58
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To dread to + inf

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Fear of doing smth in the future (outcome)

59
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To go bonkers

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To go really really crazy

60
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Stark

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Very very smth

61
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Raving lunatic

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Someone who is very very very lunatic

62
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To empathise with someone

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To be able to fell what another persons feelings

63
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Eloquence

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Someone who is a great speaker

64
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Unease

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Uncomfortable

65
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I feel unease

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I feel uncomfortable

66
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To be at ease

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To be comfortable

67
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To dwindle

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To fade, to finish

68
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To batter

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To strike repeatedly with hard blows

E.g typhoon

69
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Mellow club, bar

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Relaxing place

69
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Mellow person

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A chill personality

70
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Drowsy (adj)

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Sleepy, falling asleep

E.g with medicine

71
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To lead a discussion

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To direct,organise,control a discussion

72
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A harsh voice

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Ex german speaking

73
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To have a high-pitched voice

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Person who talks to an animal we baby. An annoying voice

74
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Husky

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Female voice (une voix grave)

75
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Soothing voice

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Pleasant, make feel relax

76
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Squeaky voice

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Grincement. Insupportable

77
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Wobbly voice

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Unstable, insecure, nervous

78
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A jaywalker

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Someone who doesn’t cross the street in an appropriate place or time

79
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Hazard, hazardous

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Danger

80
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Enthusiasm, enthusiast

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Enthusiasm

81
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Undertaken

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Commit oneself to and begin smth

82
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On no account should you ….

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ON NO ACCOUNT

83
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… Calls for a great deal of patience …

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A great deal of

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