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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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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qui se chevauchent

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overlapping

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faire appel à l’expérience

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to draw on experience

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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)
to address a pb
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dominant
prevailing
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céder
to yield
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fausser
to skew
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prétendre que / affirmer que / soutenir que
to contend that
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entraver / gêner
to hinder
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perspicacité / éclairage / aperçu
the insight
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enchevêtrement
enmeshment
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freiné, entravé
hampered
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dévier de / s'écarter de
to depart from sth
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identifier / localiser / mettre le doigt sur
to pinpoint sth
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enraciné, tenace, établi
entrenched
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ainsi
thereby
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réprimer / étouffer
to stifle
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un pb actuel / récurrent
an ongoing issue
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annihilé / contrarié
stymied
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énigme / casse tête
conundrum
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répandu / omniprésent
ubiquitous
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tokenism
poudre aux yeux / quota ethnique
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to span
s'étendre, couvrir (fig)
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platform
programme pol
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womanliness
féminité
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to shore sth up
consolider / étayer
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to deflect attention
déjouer l'attention
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a trope
un cliché
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to elide
éluder
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an appeal
attrait, charme, intérêt
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a bondwoman
une esclave
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enthralled
captivé, fasciné
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a proxy
une substitution
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analogous
comparable / similaire
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metonymy
métonymie
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quintessential
parfait, typique
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akin to
semblable à
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to grapple with sth
se heurter à qqch / se confronter à qqch
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retribution
punition / châtiment
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foreground
premier plan
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promiscuous
aux meurs légères / libéré
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outspokenness
franc parler / franchise
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straightforward
simple / direct, franc
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intertwined
entremêlé
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to coalesce
se fondre / s'unir
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the threads
les liens
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the menial labor
le travail domestique
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well-worn
vu et revu
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to wield (the) power
exercer le pouvoir
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to enfranchise sb
donner le droit de vote à
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stirring
émouvant
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to extemporise
improviser
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indictments
accusations
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miscegenation
croisement entre race
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to slot sb into sth
intercaler / caser
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construed
interprété / exprimé
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to construe
interpréter / analyser
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to subsume
intégrer / englober
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to inform
façonner
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to bolster
soutenir
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indebted to sb
redevable à qqn
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to relinquish to
abandonner / renoncer à
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mundane
sans intérêt
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to bode
augurer
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righteous ( morally correct)
droit, justifié
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meeknes
longue souffrance
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to beget sb
faire naître / engendrer
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to strut
se pavaner
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allotted
alloué
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to wield upon
exercer sur
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to scrutinize
inspecter minutieusement
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to deflect
dévier / détourner
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vitalize
revitaliser / revigorer
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unadulterated
naturel / pur
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interwoven
entrelacé, entremêlé
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unquenchable
insatiable
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to ripple
onduler
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befitting
digne de / convenant à
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the thrall
l'esclavage / la servitude
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priggishness
suffisance / supériorité
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a predicament
une situation difficile
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the cue
la réplique
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unattended
sans surveillance
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the petulance
l'irascibilité
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a feud
une querelle
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the belittling / the belittling
dénigrant / le dénigrement
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the woe
le malheur, l'infortune
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the righteousness
la rectitude / la vertu / la justesse
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a panacea
un panacée
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unclouded
clair, cristallin
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attuned
en accord
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the uppermost
le plus haut / élevé / important
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to fetter
enchaîner, retenir / entraver
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guileless
candide
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a substratum
une sous-couche, une couche sous-jacente
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a blot
une tâche / une souillure
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scutcheon
écusson
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sullenness
maussaderie, morosité
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to squander
gaspiller, gâcher qqch
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patentee (patents holder)
breveté
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to infer
déduire