Vocab January Flashcards

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Précis, exact, juste

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Accurate

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Portable, qui se tient dans la main

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Handheld

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To own (s)

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To possess

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Parmi

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Among

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Une interdiction de

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A ban on

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Noms avec un s pluriel et singulier (3)

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A crossroads, a means, a series

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D’un côté / de l’autre

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On the one hand / on the other hand

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Personne qui cherche à rabaisser le mérite de qqn, la valeur de qqch = detracteur

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A critic

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Rester en contact

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To keep in touch

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A social network (s)

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A social media platform

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Débattre de qq chose

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To discuss something

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To be everywhere (s)

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To be ubiquitous

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Des perspectives sombres, laborieuses

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Dim prospects

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Se balader, flâner

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To stroll

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Plongée avec les poissons, sans bouteille de gaz

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The snorkelling

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Anciennement

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Formerly

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Unshamedly (s)

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Wantonly

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A prisoner (s)

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An inmate

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When it hurts

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To be sore

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Exigeant

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Demanding

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A fall guy (=un bouc émissaire)

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A scapegoat

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Un guérisseur

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A healer

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Affluer

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To flock

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Peu rigoureusement

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Loosely

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Scandalous, shocking
Egregious
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Soudoyer
To bribe
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Laxiste
Lax
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Honest, legitimate
Genuine
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Calmer, réduire, soulager
To alleviate
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Une conférence, un cours magistral
A lecture
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Vanter, chanter les louanges de
To tout
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Attaquer en justice
To sue
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Déclencher
To trigger
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La probabilité
The likelihood
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Misleading (s)
Deceitful
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Dangers (s)
Hazards
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Passer en contrebande
To smuggle
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Endiguer
To stem
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To scar
To harm
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A crisis (pl)
Crises
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To hurry to do something (s)
To scramble to do something
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Être un incontournable, faire partie des murs
To be a fixture
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Une faille en géologie
A falt
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Un apport
An intake
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L’accent
An emphasis
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Ravager
To plague
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Le présentateur
The news anchor
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Construction to abuse
To abuse something
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Un organigramme
A flow chart
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Rendre un verdict
To hand down a verdict
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Mépriser (2)
To despise / to scorn
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Influence (s)
Clout
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Une catastrophe sanitaire
A public health crisis
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Faire un accord à l’amiable
To settle (out of court)
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Sans prendre de gants (2)
Cutting to the chase, bluntly
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Contrarier qq
To antagonize someone
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Pointer du doigt
To point out / to point the finger of blame at somebody
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Une erreur de justice
A miscarriage of justice
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Un point de repère
A landmark
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A first-of-it’s kind (s)
Unprecedented
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To wait in line (2s)
To queue up / to line up
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Mécénat (2s)
Sponsorship/ patronage
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Chambouler
To wreak havoc
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Rendre des comptes
To answer for something
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S’en sortir
To get away with it
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Se débrouiller, s’en sortir
To get by
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Pour résumer (2s)
In short / in brief
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Au bout du compte
In the end / at the end of the day
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Abandonner
To ditch something
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Bon débarras
Good riddance
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Une fausse couche
A miscarriage
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Une erreur de justice
A miscarriage of justice
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Être méfiant
To be weary of
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Échapper à l’impôt sur le revenu
To dodge income tax
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Évasion fiscale
Tax fraud / tax avoidance / tax evasion
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Un tire-au-flanc, un free-rider
A dodger
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Un avion de tourisme
A commercial flight
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Une publicité
A commercial
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Révéler (lever le voile sur)
To unveil
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Une décision commune
A joint decision
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Une invention (pas brain-child ni invention)
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Climate skeptics (s)
Climate change denier
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Faire une tournée électorale
To barnstorm
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Slim (s)
Slender
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Grimacer
To grin
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La cupidité
The greed
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Se profilant
Looming
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Démolir
To tore down
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Who is the Prime Minister of India ?
Narenda Modi
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Frappant
Striking
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To win (s)
To prevail
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Épargne
Saving
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Formuler des critiques
To level criticism at / against somebody
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Être critiqué sur
To be blamed for
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Mettre en lumière
To underline
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À gap that keeps increasing (2s)
A yawning / widening gap
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Les riches et pauvres
The haves and have-not
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Préoccupant
Concerning
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Prestigious (s)
Top-notch
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Participer / aller
To attend
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Retenir
To hold down
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Un lègue
A charitable quest
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Être éligible à
To be entitled to
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Être étiqueté
To be labeled
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Un foyer
A household
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To give an edge to the kids
To fast track the kids (of the rich)
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Le trésor public
Tresory
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Dépouiller
To strip
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Condamner
To convict