Vocab March-April

Question 1

Taxer les milliardaires jusqu’à ce qu’ils disparaissent

Answer 1

To tax billionaires out of existence

Question 2

Cela ne compte pas

Answer 2

It does not hold

Question 3

To assess (s)

Answer 3

To gauge

Question 4

L’objectif final

Answer 4

Thé end goal

Question 5

Impliquer

Answer 5

To entail

Question 6

Redorer son image

Answer 6

To burnish one’s image

Question 7

L’influence

Answer 7

Leverage

Question 8

Se racheter

Answer 8

To redeem

Question 9

Prodigieusement

Answer 9

Stupendously

Question 10

Être vu d’un mauvais œil

Answer 10

To be frowned upon

Question 11

Croissance illimitée

Answer 11

Unbounded growth

Question 12

Fustiger / critiquer très sévèrement

Answer 12

To lambast

Question 13

Douteux, suspect

Answer 13

Dubious

Question 14

Le fossé béant

Answer 14

The yawning gap

Question 15

Au rythme

Answer 15

At the pace

Question 16

Caprices

Answer 16

Whims

Question 17

Harmful (s)

Answer 17

Nefarious

Question 18

Surfait

Answer 18

Overrated

Question 19

Y perdre

Answer 19

To lose out

Question 20

Les failles (du système)

Answer 20

The loopholes (of the system)

Question 21

Le baccalauréat

Answer 21

A-level

Question 22

Lycée general

Answer 22

Sixth-form (college) : lycée general

Question 23

Critique cinglante, + le criticisme cinglant

Answer 23

Scathing criticism

Question 24

Crier au scandale

Answer 24

To cry foul

Question 25

To promote (s)

Answer 25

To further

Question 26

Ayons une pensée pour

Answer 26

Spare a thought

Question 27

Donner une connotation particulière au débat

Answer 27

To spin (a debate)

Question 28

To fall appart

Answer 28

To unravel

Question 29

To protect one's power (s)

Answer 29

To gatekeeper one's power

Question 30

Extravagantly (s)

Answer 30

Lavishly

Question 31

Attack (s)

Answer 31

Onslaught / onset

Question 32

At their disadvantage (s)

Answer 32

At their expense

Question 33

To be deeply rooted in (s)

Answer 33

To be embedded in sth

Question 34

To increase, to rise (s)

Answer 34

To ratchet up

Question 35

S'irriter de / s'hérisser à l'idée de

Answer 35

To bristle

Question 36

Encore un/une autre

Answer 36

Yet another

Question 37

A long terme

Answer 37

In the long run

Question 38

Supprimer des emplois

Answer 38

To cut / shed jobs

Question 39

Éviter une question

Answer 39

To dodge a question

Question 40

Marques de pneu

Answer 40

To skid

Question 41

Une chronique

Answer 41

A column

Question 42

Dernier cri / ultra moderne

Answer 42

Newfangled

Question 43

Parcourir

Answer 43

To roam

Question 44

Faire une croisière / rouler tranquillement

Answer 44

To cruise

Question 45

Déambuler / errer

Answer 45

Wander, meander

Question 46

S’extasier

Answer 46

To rave about something

Question 47

Vanter les mérites de qqchose

Answer 47

To tout something as

Question 48

Louer qq

Answer 48

To praise, to speak highly of

Question 49

Voler qq à qq

Answer 49

To steal sth from sby

Question 50

Un criminel (pas a criminal)

Answer 50

An offender

Question 51

A con artist (s)

Answer 51

A scam artist

Question 52

Être condamné à x années de prison

Answer 52

To be sentenced to x years in jail

Question 53

Être condamné à vie

Answer 53

To get a life sentence

Question 54

Un braquage (pas hold up)

Answer 54

To heist

Question 55

To commit a felony (s)

Answer 55

To commit a crime

Question 56

Pénétrer illégalement qq part, sans autorisation

Answer 56

To trepass

Question 57

Petite délinquance

Answer 57

Petty crime

Question 58

Prononcer un mot

Answer 58

To utter a word

Question 59

Révéler

Answer 59

To disclose

Question 60

Susciter

Answer 60

To arouse

Question 61

Au lieu de

Answer 61

Instead of

Question 62

Un dépanneur

Answer 62

A breakdown mechanic

Question 63

Tricoter

Answer 63

To knit

Question 64

Un impair (commettre un impair)

Answer 64

A blunder (to make a blunder)

Question 65

Se stabiliser

Answer 65

To settle down

Question 66

Un critère, des critères

Answer 66

A criterion, criteria

Question 67

Les nombres impairs et pairs

Answer 67

Odd (impairs) and even numbers

Question 68

To get hired (s)

Answer 68

To be taken on

Question 69

Un caddie, un chariot de courses (2)

Answer 69

A cart, a trolley

Question 70

Tubes à essai

Answer 70

Test tubes

Question 71

Des futurs parents (3)

Answer 71

Prospective parents, parents to be, would be parents

Question 73

Croire en / croire

Answer 73

To believe in / to believe

Question 74

Bâcler

Answer 74

To botch

Question 75

Think-thank

Answer 75

Un groupe d’experts

Question 76

Asile

Answer 76

Asylum

Question 77

Avoir des défauts

Answer 77

To have flows

Question 78

Camion

Answer 78

Lorry

Question 79

Camion

Answer 79

Lorry