French/English Vocab Flashcards by Cédric Maubaret | Brainscape

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empirer

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to worsen

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un typhon

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a typhoon

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un glissement de terrain

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a landslide

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des fermiers

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farmworkers

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un bord

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a bank

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une rive

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a bank

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bondé

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cramped

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un bidonville

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a shantytown

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la boue

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mud

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un tronc d’arbre

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a log

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le logement

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housing

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l’exploitation forestière

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logging

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l’exploitation minière

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minning

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une compagnie

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a corporation

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une société

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a corporation

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la forêt tropicale

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the rainforest

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une politique

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a policy

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d’entreprise

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corporate

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traiter

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to address

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aborder

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to adress

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un gaz à effet de serre

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a greenhouse gas

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une manifestation

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a protest/ a demonstration

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un manifestant

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a protester/ a demonstrator

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dans le monde

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worldwide

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faire campagne

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to campaign

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un frein

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a curb

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accueillir

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to host

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rassembler

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to rally/to gather

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un rassemblement

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a rally/a gathering

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écologique (en rapport avec l’écologie)

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ecological

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écologique (qui respecte l’environnement)

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environmentally friendly/eco-friendly

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un problème

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an issue

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un écologiste

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an environmentalist

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se faire nommer

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to get appointed

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mondial

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global

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parmi

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among

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manifester

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to demonstrate/to protest

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agir

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to take action

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la sécheresse

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drought

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des feux de brousse

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bush fires

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exhorter

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to urge

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conseiller vivement

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to urge

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un dirigeant

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a leader

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des conditions climatique extrêmes

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extreme weather

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la mousson

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the monsoon

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une précipitation

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a rainfall

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froid

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chilly

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frais

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chilly

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doux

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balmy

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la chaleur

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heat

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le réchauffement climatique

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global warming

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une inondation

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a flood

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une culture

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a crop

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pousser

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to grow

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cultiver

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to grow

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le blé

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wheat

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une récolte

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a harvest

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fleurir

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to bloom

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un biocarburant

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a biofuel

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le maïs

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corn/maize

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huile de palme

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palm oil

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un terrain

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a plot

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une parcelle

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a plot

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un champs

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a field

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une graine

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a seed

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des terres en friche

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wastelands

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la grêle

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hail

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une averse

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a shower

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caniculaire

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scorching

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le soja

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soybeans

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l’avoine

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oats

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l’orge

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barley

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un ouragan

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a hurricane

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une coulée de boue

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a mudslide

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raz de marée

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a tidal wave/ a sea wave

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une espèce nuisible

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a pest

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une organisation humanitaire

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an aid group

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un carburant fossile

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a fossile fuel

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une association caritative

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a charity

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un rendement

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a yield