Vocab 2 Flashcards by Vanessa Ahin

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Un échec

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A failure

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Elephant

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The republic party’s symbol

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Donkey

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The Democratic Party symbol

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La participation électorale

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Turnout

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Les élections mi mandat

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Midterm election

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Prochain
Imminent

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Upcoming

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Une plaidoirie

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Plea

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Inégal

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Inequal

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Garantir

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To warrant

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Un glissement de terrain

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A landslide

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Truqué

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Rigged

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Générations

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Baby boomers
Generation X
Generation Y
Milliners
Gen Z
Alpha

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Perdre la morale

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Break down

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Une course contre la montre

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A tight race

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Une course au coude à coude

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A neck and neck race

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Le temps d’une vie

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A lifetime

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Defié

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Challenged
Defied

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Il est temps que qqn fasse qqch

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It’s high time for someone to do something

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Le résultat
L’issue

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Outcome

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Maintenir

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Maintain

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Une victoire écrasante

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A landslide victory

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Renverser

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Reversal

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Un accomplissement
Un exploit

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An accomplishment
A feat

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Malgré

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Despite
In spite of

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Impliquer

Involve

Le fait de traiter

Treating

Un employé

An employee

Un postulant

An applicant

Défavorablement

Unfavorably

L’intrigue

Plot

Un avant coureur Précurseur

A forerunner

Un plafond en ver

Glass ceiling

Connaissance

Knowledge

Entreprises

Firms

Problème controversé

Controversial issue

Contre toutes attentes

Against all odds

Un procès

A trial

Marquer l’histoire

To mark history

Le couloir de la mort

The death row

La peine de mort

Death penalty

Un violeur

A rapist

Une condamnation à perpétuité

A life sentence

Dévaliser une banque

To rob a bank

Vol à main armée

Armed robbery

S’échapper Ne pas se faire attraper

To get away To flee

Un voleur

A robber

Une crise cardiaque

A heart attack

La corruption

Corruption

La cérémonie d’ouverture

The opening ceremony

Battre un record

To break a record

Un téléspectateur

A viewer

Obligatoire

Mandatory Obligatory compulsory

Avortement

Abortion

Manifestation

Protests

Le voile

Veil

Les victimes

Casualties

Elle me fait penser a ma sœur

She reminds me of my sis

Elle s’est souvenue de

She remembered to

Une thèse, des thèses

Thesis, theses

Une crise des crises

Crisis crises

Analyse analyses

Analysis analyses

Dangereux

Dangerous Hazardous

Un déferlement de haine

Outpouring of hatred

Peu importe ce qu’elle a fait

No matter what she did

A thesis statement

Une déclaration de thèse

Faire l’éloge

To praise

Ail droite du spectre politique

Right wing of the political spectrum Right wing social media

S’attaquer à la racine de problème

To target root causes