Possible vocab Flashcards

1
Q

railway company

A

une société ferroviaire

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2
Q

les propos xénophone

A

xenophobic remarks

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3
Q

les laissés-pour-compte

A

social rejects

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4
Q

voter

A

électeur, électrice

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5
Q

labour party

A

le Parti travailliste

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6
Q

les signes avant-coureurs

A

forerunners, portent, clue

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7
Q

les ressortissants

A

immigrant, expat, foreign national

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8
Q

influx of xenophobia

A

l’irruption de xénophobie

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9
Q

underlying

A

sous-jacente

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10
Q

la prestation sociale

A

social benefit

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11
Q

credit crunch

A

la pénurie de crédit

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12
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quantitative easing (printing extra money)

A

l’assouplissent quantitatif

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13
Q

housing costs

A

les prix de l’immobilier

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14
Q

badly paid jobs

A

les emplois très mal rénumérés

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15
Q

a decade

A

une décennie

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16
Q

The demonstrations turned into war

A

Les manifestations ont basculé dans la guerre

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17
Q

they engineered the defeat of the leader

A

Ils ont ochestré la défaite du dirigeant

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18
Q

a section

A

un pan

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19
Q

a local shop

A

un commerce de proximité

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20
Q

a pawn shop

A

un mont-de-piété

21
Q

well-off

A

aisé

22
Q

the stratospheric cost

A

le coût stratosphérique

23
Q

a placement year

A

une année de césure

24
Q

(colloquial) higgledy-piggledy

A

en vrac

25
Q

the marketing of education

A

La marchandisation de l’éducation

26
Q

opening schooling to the masses

A

la massification scolaire

27
Q

competitive pressure

A

la pression concurrentielle

28
Q

a senior executive

A

un cadre supérieure

29
Q

avoir vocation à faire [qch]

A

be destined for

30
Q

a rise

A

un essor

31
Q

obsolete

A

désuet

32
Q

the force of young people’s language

A

la prégnance du parler jeune

33
Q

rough methods

A

les méthodes approximatives

34
Q

census

A

un recensement

35
Q

a frame of reference

A

un référentiel

36
Q

remand centre, short-stay prison

A

un maison d’arrêt

37
Q

prison, penitential

A

pénitentiaire

38
Q

se pencher sur [qch]

A

study, look at (sth)

39
Q

facial discrimination

A

le délit de faciès

40
Q

trivial, unimportant

A

anodin

41
Q

comment enrayer les discriminations?

A

How can we stop discrimination?

42
Q

un récépissé

A

receipt, delivery note (context of text a proof, note)

43
Q

grossier

A

basic, rough, inaccurate

44
Q

Ministry

A

le ministère

45
Q

in Texas

in California

A

au Texas
en Californie
(a state)

46
Q

barn
election
spread
ethnicity

A
étable
élection
étendre
ethnicité 
(On utilise un accent aigu lorsque la voyelle e est la première lettre du mot
47
Q

mixed

A

mélangé
(on met un accent aigu lorsque la voyelle e est la placée entre deux consonnes)
except: pedigree, repartie, revolver

48
Q

immediate
complete
generation
generally

A
immédiat
compléter
génération
généralement 
(on met un accent aigu sur un e précédant une syllable SANS e muet

cf. évènement, tu complètes (before e muet)

49
Q

advent, coming

A

avènement

on met un accent grave pour le e précédant une syllable contenant un e muet