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Renaissance Vocab
Renaissance Vocab
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Language - French
Undergraduate 3
02/18/2009
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Term
calquer sur
 Definition
 to trace from, copy
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cerner
 Definition
to define, outline (a problem)
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écœurer
 Definition
to sicken, nauseate
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heurter
 Definition
to hit, collide with
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invectiver
 Definition
to insult
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se dépouiller de qqch
 Definition
to strip oneself, to shed something
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ternir
 Definition
to tarnish (an image, a réputation), to dull
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l’affaiblissement
 Definition
weakening
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un calque
 Definition
a replica, a copy
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une coupure
 Definition
a cut, a break
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le châtiment
 Definition
a punishment
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l’écroulement
 Definition
the collapse or fall
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le désagrégation
 Definition
the break-down, collapse, disintegration
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l’enjeu
 Definition
a stake, issue, problem (what’s at stake in a text...)
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un lieu commun
 Definition
a common place
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un mécène
 Definition
patron (of the arts)
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le péché
 Definition
a sin  (commettre un péché ; le péché originel)
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la prosopopée
 Definition
la personnification de quelque chose, souvent un mort
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