day 12checking the facts
unit 2 · the news and the truthchecking the facts
Report a view with the right verb: affirmer, soutenir, prétendre, admettre, démentir, contredire, invoquer, faire valoir.
today’s words
- faire valoir · to put forward (an argument)
- l'identification · identification
- invoquer · to invoke, to cite (as a reason)
- proclamer · to proclaim, to declare
- contredire · to contradict
- attester · to attest, to confirm
- apparent · apparent, visible
- l'investigation · investigation
- douteux · doubtful, dubious
- prôner · to advocate, to recommend
- erroné · wrong, mistaken
- l'enquêteur · investigator
- l'authenticité · authenticity
- l'ambiguïté · ambiguity
- ambigu · ambiguous
- indéniable · undeniable
- qualifier · to describe as, to call; to qualify
- relativiser · to put into perspective
- le présupposé · assumption, presupposition
- crédible · credible, believable
- l'infox · fake news
- flou · vague, blurred
- explicite · explicit, clear
- implicite · implicit, unstated
- objecter · to object, to argue against
- renchérir · to go further, to add (in a debate)
- la correction · correction
- le rectificatif · correction notice, retraction
- tutoyer · to say tu to someone
- vouvoyer · to say vous to someone
sentences
- Inès mène son investigation depuis trois jours, comme une enquêtrice. · Inès has been running her investigation for three days, like a detective.
- Première étape : l'identification de la source de l'erreur. · First step: identifying the source of the mistake.
- Le site affirme que son article est fidèle à l'étude. · The site states that its article is faithful to the study.
- Le journaliste prétend avoir lu toute l'étude. · The journalist claims to have read the whole study.
- Il invoque le manque de temps : une excuse douteuse. · He cites lack of time: a dubious excuse.