Vocabulaire Alex Concours Flashcards by Victor Cante | Brainscape

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Exhaustif, complet

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All-embracing

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Déconcertant, déroutant

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Baffling

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De façon flagrante, éhontée

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Blatantly

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Tomber en ruines, s’effondre, s’émietter

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To crumble

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Rejeter (proposal), ne pas prendre au sérieux

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Dismiss

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Englober, comprendre, regrouper

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To encompass

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Sidéré

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Flabbergasted (by)

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Incongru, incohérent

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Incongruous

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Précisément

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Precisely

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Laisser s’accumuler (debt, bill)

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To run up

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S’essouffler, s’épuiser

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To run out of steam

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Avoir pour cause, être le résultat de

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To stem from

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Prendre, tenir (fill, occupy – space)

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To take up (to the street)

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Grief, sujet de plainte, réclamation, revendication, injustice

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A grievance

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Augmenter, intenifier (effect, fear, pleasure)

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To heighten

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Annoncer, proclamer

Un héraut, qn qui annonce un événement remarquable

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To herald

A herald

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prospérer, être florissant (business, company)

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To thrive

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En fonction, en exercice

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Incumbent

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Passioné, fervent (appel, plaidoyer)

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Impassioned (plea)

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Avant tout, en premier lieu

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First and foremost

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Conjecturer, présumer

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To surmise

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Exercer, user de (influence, power)

Brandir (weapon)

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To wield

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Influence, poids

Avoir le bras long

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Clout

To have, carry, wield a lot of clout

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Extrêmement

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Tremendously

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Se venter de, être fier d’avoir

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To boast

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Limites, bornes

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Bounds

To go beyond the bounds of

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La grandeur, splendeur, magnificence

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Grandeur