Put your advanced French to the test with this crossword focused on formal and sophisticated vocabulary. At C1 level, mastering le registre soutenu is essential for academic writing, professional correspondence, and polished expression. Can you recall the precise terms used in formal French contexts? Fill in the grid and prove your command of the language’s most refined register.
Horizontalement
- 1. Direct address to a person or thing
- 8. Mild word substituted for a harsh one
- 11. Act of stating or pronouncing clearly
- 12. Figure combining contradictory terms
- 13. Repetition of a word at start of phrases
Verticalement
- 2. Use of many words to express one idea
- 3. Often
- 3. Frequently, many times
- 3. Often, indicating frequent occurrence
- 3. often or frequently
- 4. Always, indicating constant occurrence
- 4. always or still
- 4. Always, at all times
- 4. Always
- 5. Restatement of a text in other words
- 6. Twilight, dusk at day's end
- 7. Part used to represent the whole
- 9. sometimes or occasionally
- 9. Sometimes, occasionally
- 9. Sometimes
- 10. To want or to wish something
- 10. To want
- 10. Verb meaning 'to want'
- 10. To want, irregular French verb
- 10. Verb meaning 'to want'
- 10. To want
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