Immigration Flashcards

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1
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Acquérir

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To acquire

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Le chantier de construction

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Building site

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Le contrebandier

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Smuggler

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Façonner l’opinion

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To shape opinion

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Le fond

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Baseline

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S’installer

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To settle

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Le malheur

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Misfortune

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Se plaindre

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To complain

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Le quartier

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District

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Le recensement

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Census

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Séjourner

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To stay

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Le sens du devoir

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Sense of duty

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Sensible

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Sensitive

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Par voie de

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By the way of

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L’ampleur

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Breadth

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Assourdissant

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Deafening

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Déambuler

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To stroll

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En définitive

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When all is said and done

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19
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En dessous

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Below

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En dessus

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Above

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21
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Éclater

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To burst

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La fermeté

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Firmness

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La filière

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Route

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Hormis

A

Excluding

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Inaugurer

A

To inaugurate

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La mutation

A

Change

27
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Nulle part

A

Nowhere

28
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S’offusquer

A

To take offence

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Promettre

A

To promise

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Quasiment

A

Almost

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Le renfort

A

Reinforcement

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Se réjouir

A

To rejoice

33
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La rixe

A

Brawl/ scuffle

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Sciemment

A

Deliberately

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Le seuil

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Threshold

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Souffler

A

To blow

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Toutefois

A

Nevertheless

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L’aisance

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Ease

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L’angélisme

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Naive optimism

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Associatif

A

Connected to the community

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Bondir

A

To leap up

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La contrainte

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Obligation

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Délétère

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Poisonous

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Dévoiler

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To unveil

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L’échiquier

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Chessboard

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L’éloignement

A

Removal

47
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La faille

A

Rift

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Implacable

A

Inflexible

49
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Se manifester

A

To occur/happen

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Peu enviable

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Unenviable

51
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Peu scrupuleux

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Unscrupulous

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En phase avec

A

In line with

53
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Le pote

A

Mate

54
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Rapstrié

A

Repatriated

55
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En situation irrégulière

A

Foreign national whose papers are not in order

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Se taire

A

To remain silent

57
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Viser à

A

To aim to