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Challenge your command of sophisticated French with this advanced crossword puzzle! Designed for C1 learners, it explores abstract vocabulary — from philosophical concepts to nuanced emotions and complex ideas. Whether you’re refining your academic French or expanding your intellectual lexicon, this puzzle will push your thinking and deepen your mastery of the language’s most expressive dimensions.
Grid
Fill in the grid: pick a square, read the clue and type your answer.
Clues
Across
- 2. To be able
- 4. System of ideas and ideals
- 7. Longing for the past
- 10. Process of forming general concepts
- 11. Awareness of one's own existence
- 12. Customs passed down through generations
Down
- 1. Soon
- 3. To want
- 4. Immediate understanding without reasoning
- 5. Faculty of forming mental images
- 6. State of having being or reality
- 8. Acceptance of differing views or beliefs
- 9. Sometimes
Answers
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Across
- 2. To be able → pouvoir
- 4. System of ideas and ideals → ideologie
- 7. Longing for the past → nostalgie
- 10. Process of forming general concepts → abstraction
- 11. Awareness of one's own existence → conscience
- 12. Customs passed down through generations → tradition
Down
- 1. Soon → bientot
- 3. To want → vouloir
- 4. Immediate understanding without reasoning → intuition
- 5. Faculty of forming mental images → imagination
- 6. State of having being or reality → existence
- 8. Acceptance of differing views or beliefs → tolerance
- 9. Sometimes → parfois
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