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60 Cards in this Set
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une culotte
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underwear, pants
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le flot
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wave
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un chandail
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sweater
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une fourrure
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fur, pelt
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déborder
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to boil over
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la portière
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door
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un crétin
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dickhead
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sentir
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to perceive, smell, sense, feel
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étreindre
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to clench, grasp
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éperdument
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frantically, desperately
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aboutissement
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success, closure, result, outcome (depending on context)
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la laïcisation
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secularization
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majeures
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major, important, large
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suscité
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foregoing
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au sein de
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within, inside
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pacificateur(rice)
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peacemaker, pacifier
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naguère
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some time ago, not long ago
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fustiger
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to flay
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l'archaïsme
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archaism
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travestir
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to disguise, falsify
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laïque
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secular
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largement
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largely, widely
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emprise
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potency, hold
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un supplice
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torment
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s'affronter
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to dare, to confront
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héritière
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heir by will, son and heir
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éclairer
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to enlighten, to clarify
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un instrument de concorde
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an implement of amity
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affranchir
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to enfranchise, to free
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la lente
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nit
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la démarche
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measure, approach
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inscrire
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to register
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une voie
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avenue (means), path
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élargir
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to widen, to broaden
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le réel
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reality
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un patrimoine
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cultural heritage
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se briser
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to break, to crack
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à l'encontre de
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contrary to
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s'estomper
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to wear off, to subside, to fade
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la Reconquête
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7.5 century struggle by Christians to regain the Iberian peninsula. Began in 722 when the Umayyads arrived and ended in 1492 with Ferdinand and Isabella's coronation.
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s'amorcer
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to initiate, to set into motion, to begin
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l'arbitre
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referee, arbitrator, arbiter
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concevoir
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to conceive, to invent, to think
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l'édifice
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edifice, mound, battlement
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soucieux
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afraid, conscious, worried
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infléchir
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to inflect
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un bouleversement
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disruption, upset
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approfondi(e)
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detailed, in-depth
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désormais
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from now on
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un supplice
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torment, torture, pain
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la montée
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rise, height
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un bûcher
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pyre
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un pontificat
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pontification
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entamer
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to start, to open, to initiate
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le concile
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council, particularly a religious one
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censé(e)
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supposed, alleged, expected
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se soumettre
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to submit, to subject
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supplicié(e)(s)
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torture victim
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acquis
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skill, acquired
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acquérir
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to purchase, to acquire, to buy
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