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Cognates and False Friends

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Consider the following excerpt from the short story 'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett: 'The door of her room was ajar and the sound came down the corridor, a far-off faint sound of fretful crying.' In this context, which word is a false friend, meaning it does not have the same meaning in Portuguese and English, even though it may seem similar?
a.
crying
b.
sound
c.
fretful
d.
ajar
e.
corridor

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