"We only claim to enrich the language when we do not want to bother to know its richness," said Ernest Renan. And for good reason, behind each word hides a host of terms by which it can be replaced in a statement, without changing the meaning of the latter. In French, the word "maison" is one of those that have the largest number of synonyms. "Logis", "gîte", "foyer"... As you will have understood, more than 50 lexical shades make it possible to designate the house.
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Some synonyms easily come to mind. We use them often. But others are rarer. This is the case with "ductile", for example. Used as an adjective describing what can be stretched, bent or deformed without breaking, as we read in the Treasury of the French language, it has the equivalent "malleable", "flexible", "flexible", or "extensible". Similarly, the word "prevarication", used to refer to a "breach", is synonymous with "fault". It also has several antonyms, i.e. terms with opposite meanings, such as "correction".
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