8: L'Eau Flashcards
1
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Une digue
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A dyke
2
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La pollution
A
Pollution
3
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La salinite’
A
Salinity
4
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Un ecosysteme
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An ecosystem
5
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Une station balneaire
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Seaside resort
6
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Un mare’cage
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Marsh, swamp
7
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Un moustique
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A mosquito
8
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Un fond marin
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Sea bottom
9
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Une e’tendue d’eau
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A stretch of water
10
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Polluer
A
Pollute
11
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De’polluer
A
To clean up, decontaminate
12
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Une baie
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A bay
13
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Un ilot
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A small island
14
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Une ile
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An island
15
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Une algue
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Seaweed, algae
16
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Le systeme hydraulique
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Hydraulic
17
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Le drainage
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Drainage
18
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Un marais
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Marsh, swamp
19
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Un ouragan
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Hurricane
20
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Un cyclon
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Cyclone
21
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Une pe’ninsule
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A peninsula
22
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Inonder
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To flood
23
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La se’cheresse
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The drought
24
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La boue
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The mud, sludge
25
Se rendre
To go, to visit; to yield, to surrender
26
S’enfoncer
To sink
27
Interminable
Never-ending
28
La canne a’ sucre
Sugarcane
29
Grouiller
To swarm, mill about
30
Paradisiaque
Heavenly, idyllic
31
Un patrimonie
Estate, property; inheritance
32
Ceinturer
Grasp around the waist; encircle, surround
33
Un pecheur, une pecheuse
Fisherman, fisher woman
34
Pecheur, pecheresse
Sinner
35
S’affairer
To be busy, bustle about
36
Trompeur
Deceptive, misleading
37
Une nuisance
A pollutant; a harmful substance
38
Un ouvrage
A work, a result
39
Un chapelet
Rosary, string, chain, series
40
S’adonner
Devote yourself, dedicate yourself
41
De’gringoler
Tumble down crash down; collapse
42
Asphyxier
To suffocate
43
Prolife’rer
Multiply, proliferate
44
Une villegiature
Vacation, holiday in the country, at the ocean
45
Assecher
To dry up, drain
46
Un requiem
A mass for the dead
47
Se fracasser
To smash, shatter
48
De’border
Overflow, burst its banks
49
Noyer
To drown
50
De’fricher
To clear (land); to prepare, ready
51
Pallier
To overcome, get around; cover up, gloss over
52
Torrentiel
Torrential
53
Friand (adj)
Lover, gourmand, be fond of
54
Un debordement
An overflowing, a flood; an excess
55
Invoquer
Appeal to, call upon
56
Mettre en peril
Put in danger
57
De fil en aiguille
One thing leading to another
58
En raison de
On account of, because of
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La mise en place
Arrangement, positioning, setting up
60
La mise en oeuvre
The implementation; application
61
Tant pis
Too bad
62
Un nuage
A cloud
63
Un gisement
Deposit; target market
64
Ecologique
Environmental, ecological
65
Un robinet
A faucet
66
Une coulee’ d’eau
Flow of water
67
Un barrage
Damn, barricade
68
Avoir soif
To be thirsty
69
Un bien
Goods, possession, property
70
Une directive
An order, command, instruction
71
Fameux
Famous
72
Commercialisable
Marketable
73
Gerable
Manageable, controllable
74
Une consommation
Consumption, use; intake; drink
75
Un particulier
Private individual; private seller
76
Un conflit
A conflict, a dispute
77
D’abord
First of all,
78
A’ sa guise
As you please
79
D’ailleurs
Incidentally, by the way
80
Effectivement
Indeed, actually
81
Bien entendu
Of course, naturally
82
Donner lieu a’
Give rise to, lead to, produce
83
Mettre en place
Implement
84
E’touffer
Suffocate
85
Un troupeau de lamantins
A group of manatees
86
Surtout
Especially
87
Servir de
To be used as
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Une approbation
Approval, agreement
89
Filet
Net
90
Les herbiers
Sea grass bed; herbarium
91
S’ecouler
To flow (liquid); to pass, elapse (time)
92
De’faire
Undo, dismantle
93
Un krash immobilier
Real estate crash
94
Noyer
To sink
95
Engrais n.m.
Fertilizer
96
E’pouvantable
Terrible, horrendous, appalling
97
Stocker ,verb
To store, hoard
98
En attendant
Meanwhile
99
En attendant que
Until such time as
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S’affronter
Fight each other; come face to face
101
Une plaie
Wound; plague
102
La peste
The plague
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Un lacher
The release
104
Reprendre
To pick up again
105
Un sommaire
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