Voc Flashcards

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Une cuve

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A vat

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Rallumer, raviver

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To rekindle

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Un vide, un aspirateur

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A vacuum

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opportun, efficace

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expedient

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5
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jusqu’au bout

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to the hilt

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a tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral.

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atavism

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évident, clair

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plain

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une coquille

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a shell

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entiché, épris

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infatuated

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labeur, travail

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toil

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couvrir, s’étendre

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to span

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maîtriser, exploiter

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to harness sth

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plonger dans / fouiller dans

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to delve into sth

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dévoiler / mettre à nu

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to lay bare

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impliquer, entraîner, causer

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to entail

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se dérouler

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to unfold (“as the text unfolds”

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pousser qqn à , inciter à, exhorter à

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to urge sb to do sth

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souligner, mettre en évidence

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to underscore

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affirmer

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to affirm

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railler / tourner en dérision

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to deride

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être établi / vérifié

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to be ascertained

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22
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qui se chevauchent

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overlapping

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23
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faire appel à l’expérience

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to draw on experience

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24
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mener qqn en bateau, tourner en bourrique

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to gaslight

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s’occuper (d’un pb)

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to address a pb

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dominant

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prevailing

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céder

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to yield

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28
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fausser

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to skew

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prétendre que / affirmer que / soutenir que

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to contend that

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entraver / gêner

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to hinder

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perspicacité / éclairage / aperçu

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the insight

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32
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enchevêtrement

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enmeshment

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33
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freiné, entravé

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hampered

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34
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dévier de / s’écarter de

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to depart from sth

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35
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identifier / localiser / mettre le doigt sur

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to pinpoint sth

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enraciné, tenace, établi

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entrenched

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37
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ainsi

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thereby

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38
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réprimer / étouffer

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to stifle

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39
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un pb actuel / récurrent

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an ongoing issue

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40
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annihilé / contrarié

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stymied

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41
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énigme / casse tête

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conundrum

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42
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répandu / omniprésent

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ubiquitous

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43
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tokenism

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poudre aux yeux / quota ethnique

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44
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to span

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s’étendre, couvrir (fig)

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45
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platform

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programme pol

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46
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womanliness

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féminité

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47
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to shore sth up

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consolider / étayer

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48
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to deflect attention

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déjouer l’attention

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49
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a trope

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un cliché

50
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to elide

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éluder

51
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an appeal

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attrait, charme, intérêt

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a bondwoman

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une esclave

53
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enthralled

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captivé, fasciné

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a proxy

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une substitution

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analogous

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comparable / similaire

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metonymy

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métonymie

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quintessential

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parfait, typique

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akin to

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semblable à

59
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to grapple with sth

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se heurter à qqch / se confronter à qqch

60
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retribution

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punition / châtiment

61
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foreground

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premier plan

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promiscuous

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aux meurs légères / libéré

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outspokenness

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franc parler / franchise

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straightforward

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simple / direct, franc

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intertwined

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entremêlé

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to coalesce

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se fondre / s’unir

67
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the threads

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les liens

68
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the menial labor

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le travail domestique

69
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well-worn

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vu et revu

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to wield (the) power

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exercer le pouvoir

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to enfranchise sb

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donner le droit de vote à

72
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stirring

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émouvant

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to extemporise

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improviser

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indictments

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accusations

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miscegenation

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croisement entre race

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to slot sb into sth

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intercaler / caser

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construed

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interprété / exprimé

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to construe

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interpréter / analyser

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to subsume

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intégrer / englober

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to inform

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façonner

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to bolster

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soutenir

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indebted to sb

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redevable à qqn

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to relinquish to

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abandonner / renoncer à

84
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mundane

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sans intérêt

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to bode

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augurer

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righteous ( morally correct)

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droit, justifié

87
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meeknes

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longue souffrance

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to beget sb

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faire naître / engendrer

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to strut

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se pavaner

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allotted

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alloué

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to wield upon

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exercer sur

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to scrutinize

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inspecter minutieusement

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to deflect

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dévier / détourner

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vitalize

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revitaliser / revigorer

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unadulterated

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naturel / pur

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interwoven

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entrelacé, entremêlé

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unquenchable

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insatiable

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to ripple

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onduler

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befitting

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digne de / convenant à

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the thrall

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l’esclavage / la servitude

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priggishness

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suffisance / supériorité

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a predicament

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une situation difficile

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the cue

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la réplique

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unattended

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sans surveillance

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the petulance

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l’irascibilité

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a feud

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une querelle

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the belittling / the belittling

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dénigrant / le dénigrement

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the woe

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le malheur, l’infortune

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the righteousness

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la rectitude / la vertu / la justesse

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a panacea

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un panacée

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unclouded

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clair, cristallin

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attuned

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en accord

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the uppermost

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le plus haut / élevé / important

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to fetter

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enchaîner, retenir / entraver

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guileless

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candide

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a substratum

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une sous-couche, une couche sous-jacente

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a blot

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une tâche / une souillure

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scutcheon

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écusson

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sullenness

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maussaderie, morosité

120
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to squander

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gaspiller, gâcher qqch

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patentee (patents holder)

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breveté

122
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to infer

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déduire