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M&I fiche 11 Flashcards

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un compte rendu

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an account

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une chute, une retombée

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an anticlimax

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une Ă©valuation

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an assessment

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mesuré

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balanced

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sans ambages

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blunt

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pompeux, grandiloquent

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bombastic, pompous

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une phrase accrocheuse, une formule toute faite

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a catchphrase

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lucide, clairvoyant, réaliste

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clear-sighted

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un point culminant

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a climax

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un recueil de poĂšmes

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a collection of poems

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informel, familier (2)

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colloquial, informal

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une chronique, une rubrique

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a column

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avec concision

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concisely

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argumentation cohérente

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consistent arguments

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compatible avec

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consistent with

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méprisant (2)

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contemptuous, scornful

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une controverse, une polémique

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a controversy

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sévÚrement

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critically

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un roman policier

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a detective story

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une divergence

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a discrepancy

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désobligeant

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disparaging

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une ambiguïté, un mot à double sens

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a double-entendre

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consciencieux, sincĂšre

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earnest

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un extrait de

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an excerpt, a passage

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une épopée

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an epic

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passionnant (2)

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exciting, fascinating

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une métaphore filée

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an extended metaphor

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tiré par les cheveux

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far-fetched

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un article de fond

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a feature article

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une note en bas de page

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a footnote

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cassant, sévÚre

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harsh

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les images

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the imagery

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une déduction

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an inference

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une insinuation

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an innuendo

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un monologue intérieur

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an interior monologue

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un journal de gauche

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a left-wing paper

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enjoué ( 2 )

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light-hearted, playful

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l’intrigue principale

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the main plot

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mélancolique

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melancholy

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une idée fausse

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a misconception

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trompeur, mensonger

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misleading, deceptive

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un terme inapproprié

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a misnomer

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moqueur, railleur

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mocking, derisive

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un romancier (2)

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a novelist, a writer of fiction

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une comptine

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a nursery rhyme

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des critiques acerbes

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blunt criticism

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une perspective, un point de vue sur

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an outlook on

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franc, direct

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plain, outspoken

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exagération

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overstatement

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condescendant

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patronizing

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sans originalité

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pedestrian, prosaic

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vraisemblable

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plausible

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un dramaturge

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a playwright, a dramatist

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l’essentiel

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the point

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vraisemblablement

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presumably

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un magazine Ă  sensation

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a pulp magazine

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un jeu de mot (3)

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a pun
a play on words
a wordplay

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un journal sérieux

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a quality paper

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un critique

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a reviewer

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caustique, acerbe

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scathing

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le décor

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the setting

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une nouvelle

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a short story

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une comparaison

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a simile, a comparison

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l’argot

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slang

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larmoyant

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soppy

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une petite phrase

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a sound bite

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le jeu des sonorités

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sound patterns

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faux, feints

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spurious

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corseté, recherché (2)

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stilted, elaborate

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un personnage stéréotypé

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a stock character

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simple, honnĂȘte, franc

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straightforward

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frappant, saisissant

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striking, arresting

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l’intrigue secondaire

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the subplot

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révélateur

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telling

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un roman de série noire

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a thriller

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justifier, expliquer

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to account for

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préconiser

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to advocate

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Ă©quivaloir Ă , revenir Ă  s’élever Ă 

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to amount to

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suggérer, évoquer

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to be suggestive of

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provoquer

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to bring about

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commenter

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to comment on

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rappeler, Ă©voquer

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to conjure up

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se composer de

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to consist of

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transmettre, faire passer

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to convey

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tourner en dérision (2)

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to deride, to ridicule

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