News In Brief 5 Flashcards

(59 cards)

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Démesuré

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Overweening

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Implacable

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Relentless

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Un baratineur

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A gasbag

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Maladroit

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Feckless
Clumsy
Bumbling

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Des pieds d’argile

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Feet of clay

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Se montrer digne de

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To live up for

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Hors du commun

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Larger-than-life

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Le service militaire

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The draft

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Une tentative de coup d’état

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A coup attempt

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Le fait de faire sa propre publicité

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Self-puffery

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Une gaffe

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A blooper

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Profiter de

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To benefit from

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Stupide

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Stupide
Inane

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Animer une réunion publique

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To host a town hall

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Calomnier

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To slander

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Un candidat

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A contender
A candidate

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Cependant

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However
Though

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Une grande gueule

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A windbag

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Imparfait

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Flawed
Imperfect

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Souffler

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To blow,blew,blown

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Élargi

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Blown up
Enlarged

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Extreme

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Ex’treme

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Un projet de loi

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A bill

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Une discussion, un débat, un conflit

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Ratifier une loi
To sign à bill into law
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Illégalement
Un'lawfully
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Suspecter qn
To sus'pect sb/sth of V-ing
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Entrer dans un état
To cross into the state To enter the state
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La clause suprême de la constitution
The Su'premacy Clause of the Consti'tution
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La responsabilité du gvt fédéral
The 'federal 'government's responsability
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Magazine américain de commentaires politique
The New Re'public
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Gouverneur américain du Texas
'Governor Grégoire Abott
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Préférer
'Rather than Insted of
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Une deportation
A re'moval A deportation
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Agiter
To wave
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Un insigne
An i'signia
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Scander des slogans
To chant
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Manifester
To match
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Declencher
To spark
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2 douzaines
Two 'dozen Invariable qd il est précédé d un nb
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Qui monte en flèche
'skyrocketing
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Inflexible
'Hardline Uncompromising Unflexible
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La rhétorique
○rhetoric (A kind of speech)
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Antisémitisme
Anti'semitisme
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Islamophobie
Islamo'phobia
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S'étendre sur
To stretch into
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Le ministre des affaires étrangères
A Foreign Secretary
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Spectaculaire
Dra'matic
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Le1er ministre anglais de 2010 à 2016
Former Prime Ministère David Cameron
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La réorganisation
The shuffle
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Attiser
To in'flame
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Prendre parti pour
To side with
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Demander des comptes à qq un
To hold (held held) sb to account
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La chambre des communes
House of Commons
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Une des figures du gouvernement les plus polarisé
One of the government's most polarizing figures
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Le referendum du brexit
The 'Brexit refe'rendum
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Les 3 autres 1er ministres conservateurs
3 other former Conservative Prime Ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson Lizz Truss
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L'ancienne secrétaire d'Etat
Former Home Secretary Suella Braveman
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Le roi l'a nommé à la chambre des Lords
King Charles appointed him to the House of Lords