The salem witch trials

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79 Terms

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une chasse aux sorcières

a witch hunt

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dans quelle mesure

to what extent

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un modèle

a pattern

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un procès

a trial

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une audition

a hearing

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une poursuite

a porsecution

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la sorcellerie

witchcraft

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pendre

to hang

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un tableau, une peinture

a painting

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une oeuvre

an artwork

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tendu

tense

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oppressant

oppressive

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avoir peur

to be frightened

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synonym for “to be frightened”

to be scared

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une foule

a crowd

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scruter, examiner minutieusement

to scrutinise

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montrer du doigt

to point at

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être rempli de

to be packed with

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un païen

a heathen

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bondir hors de

to leap, leapt, leapt out from

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un buisson

a bush

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s’évanouir

to faint

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jurer de

to be sworn to

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synonym for “to be sworn to”

to vow to

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la chaire

the pulpit

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au milieu de

in the midst of

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une perturbation

a disruption

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un foyer

a household

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synonym for “amusement, fun”

sport

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être en jeu

to be at stake

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oser

to dare

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être pris au dépourvu

to be taken unaware

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jurer

to swear, swore, sworn

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prendre son essor, décoller

to take off

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incontestablement

unquestionably

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une avancée scientifique

a scientific breakthrough

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un manche à balai

a broomstick

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blesser, faire mal

to hurt, hurt, hurt

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un coup d’oeil

a glance

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accru, intensifié

heightened

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se dérouler, se passer

to play out

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désigner comme bouc émissaire

to scapegoat

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rejeter la faute sur quelqu’un

to assign blame to someone

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un sentiment, une impression

a sense

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la crainte

dread

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injustement

unfairly

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maintes fois

oftentimes

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un domestique

a servant

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avoir lieu

to take place

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synonym for “to take place”

to be set

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le siècle des lumières

the Age of the Enlightenment

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un fantôme

a ghost

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le diable

the devil

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la peur

fear

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un bouc émissaire

a scapegoat

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s’intégrer

to fit in

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puisque

since

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se disputer

to argue

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avoir la langue bien pendue

to be mouthy

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inhabituel

unusual

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épouser quelqu’un de rang inférieur

to marry below one’s station

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to marry below one’s station

to marry beneath oneself

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un extrait de

an extract from

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synonym for “an extract from”

an excerpt from

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une pièce de théâtre

a play

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un dramaturge

a playwright

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jouer

to perform

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répandre des rumeurs

to spread rumors

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nier

to deny

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accuser quelq'u’un de + V

to accuse someone of + BV-ING

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un personnage

a character

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un événement

an event

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de gauche

left-wing

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alors que

while

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un accusé

a defendant

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sembler, paraître (à la vue)

to look

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sans défense

powerless

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sembler, paraître (en général)

to seem

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partial, biaisé

biased