Vocabulaire commentaire Flashcards by Célia CHALMEL

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un extrait

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an extract / an excerpt

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former / modeler

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Shape conventions

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Mal interpréter / comprendre

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Misinterpret / misconstrue / misread

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Élément de base

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a staple / a characteristic feature

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Réfléchir à

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Ponder on / Meditate upon / Give thorough consideration to

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Se méfier de

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Distrust / mistrust

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Dérouté / perplexe (x4)

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Puzzled / uneasy / Baffled / Nonplussed

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Exprimer

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to voice / to express

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Se passer / dérouler

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To go on/down ; to happen

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La vraisemblance

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Verisimilitude

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Trompeur / erroné

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Misleading / deceptive

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Prendre quelque chose calmement

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To take stg in stride

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L’altérité

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Estrangement / alienation

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Suggérer

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To imply / to suggest

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Ordinaire / banal

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mundane

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Trop / excessivement

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Overly / excessively

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Fixer / ancrer

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To anchor / to ground / to immerse

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Défaut / imperfection

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a flaw

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Hésiter

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to waver / to oscillate

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être en conflit avec

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To be at odds with

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Superposé

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Layered

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Une imbrication

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Embedding

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Rattraper / compenser

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Make up for / compensate

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Une mise en intrigue

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Emplotment

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Des pulsions

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Urges / drives

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Surnaturel

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Supernatural

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Pertinent

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Relevent

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Révélateur

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Revealing

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Ruisseler / couler

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to stream

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Affluer

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To stream in

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Se déverser au dehors

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to stream out

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Filer à toute allure

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to stream past

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l’oisiveté

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Idleness

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Aiguiser / mettre en appétit (fig)

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to Whet / arouse

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Reporter

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to put off / postpone

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Pointilleux / appliqué

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Painstaking / diligent

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Introducory

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Preliminary / prefactory

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Assidu

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Keen / perceptive

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similar to

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Akin to

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Un intermédiaire

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a intermediary / a go-between

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Saleté / crasse

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Squalor / squalidity

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Des possessions

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Belongings

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Accentuer (emphasize)

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Foreground / enhance / Throw into relief / Bring into focus

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Nauséeux

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Nauseous / Queasy

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Une corne d’abondance

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Cornucopia

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Excès

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Oversupply / overkill

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Extravagant

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Lavish

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Monotone

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Humdrum

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stand out

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Be noticeable / be slightly arresting

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Homogène

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seamless (fig) / smooth

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Doter qqun de qqch

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to endow sb with stg

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Impact / immédiat

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Immediacy

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Abonder / grouiller

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Abound with / teem with

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Exprimer / formuler

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to couch stg

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Désobligeant / dénigrant

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Derogatory

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Imprégner / se répandre

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permeate / pervade stg