All Vocab From the Year Flashcards
L’asile
Asylum/Refuge/Shelter
Enterrement
Funeral (Mine maybe? Who knows. I might just be the walking dead)
Vieillards
Old men
Veiller
Stay
Ainsi
This/As well as/ SO/THUS
(Depends on the context because languages like to screw with you like that. For example, screw in the previous sentence isn’t referring to a metal thing the hold parts together.)
Congé
Vacation time (I don’t think I know what this means in English anymore, but c’est la vie to be French about it)
Patron
Boss (Like me)
Dû
Conjugation of devoir (Because that’s an obvious guess)
En somme
In short
Plutôt
Rather
En deuil
In grief (DEFINITELY me right now)
Revêtir
To assume/Must (Once again, language and context)
Emprunter
To borrow
Assoupi
Asleep
Doute
Doubt
Trajet
Distance (When I see it I think of “trajectory” if that helps you remember, or maybe it confuses you, idk!)
Réveillé
Wake up
Tassé
Packed
Hâte
Haste
Cahots
Jolts
Brassard
Armband (No, it is not a French bastard)
Cravate
Neck tie
Monte
Went
Étourdi
Careless (Like the mistakes on my maths test!)
Chemin à pied
Sidewalk (Directly translated its a “path at foot” but normal people don’t walk on a slab of concrete and think PATH AT FOOT! PATH AT FOOT!)
Accueillir
Meet
Cadre
Executive
Échéance
Date of Payment/Maturity/Expiration (Pretty much just an important day)
Puisqu’elle
Since it
Aboutir
Succeed
Accord
Agreement
En deça
On the side of (Deça also means “hither” which is an old English word along the lines of here, so if you see “deça” you’re reading probably advanced literary text by the equivalent of Shakespeare and are therefore screwed.)
Rapprocher
Bringing together/Bringing closer
Au sein de
Within
Sein
Breast/womb/bosom
L’effect de serre
Greenhouse gasses
Menaces
Threats
Mettre
To put
Manquants
Missing
Approvisionnement
Availability/Stock
Vingt-et-unième
21st
Ministre
Minster (The political kind, not the religious kind)
S’exprimer
To express oneself (Get your mind out of the gutter)
Dérèglement
Disturbance/Trouble
Croissance
Growth
Constats
Certified statements/Reports
Croître
To grow
Citoyen
Citizens
Défi
Challenge
Baisser les bras
Give up
Bien-être
Well being
Peuple
People (country minimum)
Tout de suite
Right away
Falloir
To need
Recevoir
To recieve
Vieux
Old man (Singular)
Légion
Army (I think ‘legion’ is a word in english too its just kinda died out.)
Légion d’honneur
Military decoration medal thingie
Serré
Tight
Saluer
To greet (Salut!)
En vue
Prominent or Famous
Lors
During/At the time of
Sino-Americaine
Chinese American (Because THAT’S intuitive)
Sous
Under
Contre
Against (I think “contrary” when I see it but that might just screw you up)
Publier
Publish
Au lieu de
Instead of
Panneaux solaire
Solar Panels
Conduire
To drive (cars, not golf)
La douche
The shower (Sorry, we aren’t discussing your ex)
Se doucher
To shower (Still nothing to do with your ex)
Le bain
The bath
Éconmiser
To save (Anything except files and people)
Être recouvert
To be covered
Moitié
Half
Un éco-citoyen
Eco-citizen
Éteindre
To extinguish
Lutte
Struggle
Sigle
Acronym
GES
Gaz à effet de serre (Greenhouse gases, learn your frickin vocab)
PIB
GDP (Take Econ if you don’t know what that means)
Sa richesse
Your wealth
La fonte
Melting (In a noun form, because logic)
Le réchauffement climatique
Global warming
La terre
Earth or land
L’utilisation
Use
L’épuisement
Exhaustion
La surpêche
Overfishing
La deforestation
Deforestation (No, duh, Sherlock)
Les pesticides
Pesticides (Never would have guessed -.-)
Les herbicides
Herbicides (No, really?)
Une espèce
A species
La surconsommation
Over comsumption
Le bouleversement
Upheaval
La désertication
Desertification (It’s elementary, dear Watson)
Le manque
Lack
L’eau potable
Drinkable water
Les déchets
Waste/Trash
L’augmentation
Increase
La chasse
Hunting
La combustion
Combustion (Fire and stuff)
Le charbon
Coal
La volonté
Willpower (What you think is enough to pass the IB but isn’t)
Une récolte
Harvest
L’accumulation
Accumulation/build up (Dear French, I know English)
S’accumuler
To build up/to accumulate
l’amélioration
Improvement
S’améliorer
To improve yourself
La dégradation
Damage
Se degrader
To worsen/to degrade
La destruction
Destruction (Mashalla)
Détruire
To destroy
La disparition
Disappearance
Disparaître
To disappear
L’endommagement
Damage
Endommager
To damage
Le gaspillage
Waste
Gaspiller
To waste
La pollution
Pollution
Polluer
To pollute (HARAM! Oh, wait, I meant highway. As in look at the highway to Jeddah)
La préservation
Protection/Preservation
Préserver
To protect/to preserve
La protection
Protection (No, it means squirrel -.-)
Protéger
To protect
Le réchauffement
The heating
Réchauffer
To reheat
La récupération
Recuperation
Le recyclage
The recycling
Recycler
To recycle
La réduction
The reduction
Réduire
To reduce
Lutter
To fight (THE IB!)
Modifier
To modify
La modification
Change/modification
Une habitude
Habitat
Un procédé
A process
Décontaminer
To decontaminate
La décontamination
Decontamination
Le sol
The ground
Composter
To compost/To validate a ticket (Cuz those are related)
Le compostage
Compost
Radioactif
Radioactive (Like the song by Imagine Dragons)
Traiter
To deal with (Par example: Je ne traite pas l’école)
Le traitement
Treatment
Entreposer
To store
Un entrepôt
Warehouse
Délaisser
To neglect
Le délaissement
Neglect
Privilégier
To favor
Un privilège
A privilege (That accent gone go mess me up)
Les produits biologique
Organic food
Une alimentation
A diet (Shudders)
Une économie
A saving
Cesser
To cease
La cessation
Cancelation
En voie d’extinction
Endangered
Créer
To create
La création
Creation
Sauvage
Wild
Interdire
To forbid
L’interdiction
Ban
Grâce a
Thanks to
Mener
To lead
Le pétrole
Oil
Remplacer
To replace
Le replacement
Replacement
Énergie renouvelable
Renewable energie
Solaire
Solar
Éolienne
Wind
Une accusation
Accusation
Accuser
To accuse
Constater
To notice
Renouveller
Renew
Le renouvellement
Renewal
Retirer
To withdraw
Soutien
Supporter/dependant
Subvenir
To provide for
Tâche
Work (Travail/Devoir)
Rédigez
Write (Écrire)
Dessalement
Desalination
Pékin
Beijing (Where the floop did that come from?)
Contraingnant
Contraints
Serré sur les mains
Shake hands
Désormais
By/From now
La légende
Legend/Caption
Glaciologue
Guy who studies glaciers
