6: Politique Europeenne Flashcards
(63 cards)
1
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Le populisme
A
Populism
2
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Un avoir
A
Possession, asset
3
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La politique de l’autruche
A
Politics of an ostrich
4
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Un apotre
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An apostle
5
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Enjoindre
A
Demand, require
6
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Decerner
A
Award, attribute
7
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Envisager
A
To contemplate, consider
8
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Eluder
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To elude, avoid
9
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Tancer
A
To scold, admonish
10
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Une injonction
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An order, injunction
11
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Une ferveur
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Enthusiasm, ardor
12
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Une remorque
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Trailer, vehicle with no motor
13
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Un bailleur
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Backer, supporter, silent partner
14
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Renacler
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Be reluctant, to balk, snort
15
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Se creuser
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To grow hollow, larger, increase
16
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Une surenchere
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To overbid, outdo everyone else
17
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Aviver
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To kindle, to fan
18
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Desarconner (soft c)
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To unseat, unsettle
19
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Veneneux
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Poisonous
20
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Une desagregation
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A disintegration
21
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Vertueux
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Virtuous
22
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Enrayer
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To jam, block
23
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Deletere
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Injurious, harmful
24
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Frileux
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Sensitive to the cold; fearful, timid, faint-hearted
25
Une girouette
Weather vane
26
Accablant
Exhausting; damning
27
Timore
Timid, shy
28
A l’echelle de
On the scale of
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Mettre en place
Implement
30
Mettre qch sur pied
Organize something
31
A l’encontre de
Counter to, contrary to
32
Au sein de
In, within, inside
33
Servilement
Slavishly, in a servile manner
34
Etonnamment
Amazingly, astonishingly
35
Marge de manoeuvre
Leeway, wiggle room
36
Au compte-gouttes
Drop by drop
37
Mettre sur les rails
To get on track
38
De loin
From a distance
39
Immanquablement
Inevitably, certainly
40
Revetir
To put on, wear; decorate, cover
41
Accule’
Cornered, forced
42
Gommer
To erase
43
Poncif
Cliche, something commonplace
44
Un seuil
Threshold, entrance
45
Ebranler
To shake, rattle, weaken
46
Incontrolable
Unquestionable
47
Mouvoir
To move
48
Effare’
Stunned, aghast
49
Un bulletin
A forecast, a newsflash
50
Une gestion
Management
51
Un defaut
A fault
52
Degager
To clear; to remove, extract
53
Pertuber
Disrupt, disturb
54
En fonction de
According to, in; accordance with
55
En tete de
At the head of
56
Par le biais de qqn
Through, with the help of; by way of
57
D’autant plus que
Especially as
58
La remise
Delivery, presentation, submission
59
Un passif
A debt, liabilities
60
Tromper
Mislead, cheat, deceive, swindle
61
Exiger
To demand, require
62
Accapare’
Busy, monopolized
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Un repli
Fold (in cloth); withdrawal, retreat; downturn (economy)
