ARLE VOCAB Flashcards
la pénurie
shortage
les privations
restrictions
un pensionnat
a boarding school
les bains publics
public baths
camoufler
to hide
le camp de la mort
death camps
le chef d’etat
head of state
clandestin(e)
illegal
communier
to take communion
la coupure d’electricite
power cut
les denrees
commodities
envahir
to invade
l’espion
spy
le Maquis
group of Resistance fighters who hid in the countryside
la Milice
French political group that collaborated with the Germans to fight against the Resistance
la naissance
birth
le pensionnaire
boarding school
se propager
to spread
saboter
to sabotage (deliberately damage)
la Shoah
Holocaust
les soldats allies
allied soldiers (working together)
se soumettre
to abide, submit
l’abri soutterain
underground shelter
agace(e)
annoyed
l’alerte
a warning
la chasse au tresor
treasure hunt
le collabo
shortened word for ‘collaboraters’.
le dortoir
dormitory
doue(e)
gifted
les echasses
stilts
exacerbe
aggravated
faire de la contrebande
to smuggle
fouiller
to search / to go through
la Gestapo
secret German police
l’indice
clue
manigancer
to be up to something
Marie
Virgin Mary
mesquin(e)
mean
se mettre a l’ecart
to seperate yourself
la pancarte
sign
morne
gloomy
passe(e)
faded
le pensionnaire
boarder
petainiste
French person who believed Petain would help France out of the war
la priere
prayer
le quai
platform
railler
to mock
les railleries
mockery
le regard
the look
le rouge a levres
lipstick
(avoir) des soupcons
to be suspicious
stupefait
surprised
les vestiaires
changing rooms
le youpin
negative word for Jew
youtre
insulting word for Jew
flagrant
obvious
accentuer
to emphasise
l’apprentissage
learning
le cocon protecteur
protective cocoon
la culpabilite
guilt
se defouler
to let off steam
denoncer
to denounce, give someone up
espiègle
playful
l’eveil
the awakening
frivole
frivolous
impitoyable
ruthless
la loi du plus fort
law of the strongest
mefiant
wary
se mefier
to be careful about
abriter
to shelter
aise
well-off
l’attachement
affection
attendrissant
moving
attentionné
caring
le bouc-émissaire
scapegoat
coupé
cut off
cultivé
well-red/cultivated
doué
gifted
être a l’écart
to be apart
la gravité
severity
hanté
haunted
issu de
from
se livrer a
to get involved in
maintenu
maintained
mur
mature
pleurer
to sob
protégé
sheltered
la prouesse
achievement
réservé
reserved, shy
sur de lui / sure d’elle
confident
tendre
affectionate
le vol
theft
le voleur
thief
