Inequalities: wealth and poverty

Question 1

La richesse

Answer 1

Wealth

Question 2

riche, la richesse

Answer 2

rich / wealthy, riches / wealth

Question 3

aise / fortuné, la richesse / l’abondance

Answer 3

affluent, affluence

Question 4

aise, nanti / très à l’aise

Answer 4

well-off, well-healed

Question 5

privilégié, l’argent

Answer 5

privileged, money / cash

Question 6

le fric

Answer 6

dough / dosh

Question 7

acquérir, accumuler, amasser

Answer 7

to acquire, to accumulate, to amass

Question 8

hériter de, un héritage

Answer 8

to inherit / to come into, a legacy

Question 9

s’enrichir, faire fortune

Answer 9

to get rich / to make money, to make a fortune

Question 10

énorme, fabuleux

Answer 10

huge, fabulous

Question 11

gigantesque, un milliardaire

Answer 11

tremendous, a multimillionaire / a billionaire (US)

Question 12

dépenser, dépensier / qui jette l’argent par les fenêtres

Answer 12

to spend, a spendthrift

Question 13

dépensier, sans compter

Answer 13

extravagant, extravagantly

Question 14

gaspiller, dilapider

Answer 14

to squander, to dissipate

Question 15

prodigue, la prodigalité

Answer 15

prodigal, prodigality

Question 16

extrêmement prodigue, l’extrême prodigalité

Answer 16

profligate, profligacy

Question 17

La pauvreté, misérable

Answer 17

Poverty, poverty-stricken

Question 18

appauvrir, pauvre, l’appauvrissement

Answer 18

to impoverish, impoverished, impoverishment

Question 19

un pauvre, paupériser, la paupérisation

Answer 19

a pauper, to pauperize, pauperization

Question 20

sans le sou / sans ressources, fauché

Answer 20

penniless, broke / skint

Question 21

endetté, l’endettement

Answer 21

indebted, indebtedness

Question 22

le besoin, nécessiteux

Answer 22

need / want, needy

Question 23

précaire, la précarité

Answer 23

precarious, precariousness

Question 24

priver, les déshérités, la privation

Answer 24

to deprive, the deprived, deprivation / hardship

Question 25

défavorisé, les laissés-pour-compte

Answer 25

underprivileged, the underdogs

Question 26

démuni / sans ressources, le dénuement / l'indigence

Answer 26

destitute, destitution

Question 27

misérable, la misère

Answer 27

wretched, wretchedness

Question 28

la misère noire

Answer 28

squalor

Question 29

une situation désespérée

Answer 29

a plight

Question 30

épouvantable, affreux

Answer 30

dreadful, awful

Question 31

effroyable, impitoyable, implacable

Answer 31

appalling, ruthless, merciless

Question 32

un paria, un marginal

Answer 32

an outcast, a dropout

Question 33

un clochard

Answer 33

a tramp / a bum / a hobo

Question 34

mendier, un mendiant, la mendicité

Answer 34

to beg, a beggar, begging

Question 35

faire la manche, un vagabond

Answer 35

to panhandle, a vagrant

Question 36

sans abri / sans domicile fixe, un sans-abri, la situation des sans-abri

Answer 36

homeless, a homeless person, homelessness

Question 37

sur le pavé / dans la dèche, bidonville

Answer 37

down-and-out, a shantytown

Question 38

abriter, un abri

Answer 38

to shelter, a shelter

Question 39

un asile de nuit

Answer 39

a dosshouse / a flophouse

Question 40

squatter, un squatter

Answer 40

to squat, a squatter

Question 41

avoir faim, la faim

Answer 41

to go hungry, hunger

Question 42

Attitudes à l'égard de la pauvreté

Answer 42

Attitudes to poverty

Question 43

indifférent, l'indifférence

Answer 43

indifferent, indifference

Question 44

rejeter / exclure, l'exclusion

Answer 44

to reject, rejection / exclusion

Question 45

marginaliser, la marginalisation

Answer 45

to marginalize, marginalization

Question 46

vivre en parasite, un parasite / un pique-assiette

Answer 46

to freeload, a freeloader

Question 47

vivre aux crochets de, un profiteur / un parasite

Answer 47

to scrounge on sby, a scrounger

Question 48

mériter, méritant, peu méritant / indigne

Answer 48

to deserve, deserving, undeserving

Question 49

une association caritative, la charité, charitable

Answer 49

a charity, charity, charitable

Question 50

la compassion, compatissant

Answer 50

compassion, compassionate

Question 51

secourir / venir en aide, le secours / l'aide

Answer 51

to relieve, relief / aid

Question 52

la solidarité

Answer 52

solidarity

Question 53

généreux, la générosité

Answer 53

generous, generosity

Question 54

faire don de, un don, un donateur

Answer 54

to donate, a donation, a donator

Question 55

la philanthropie, un philanthrope

Answer 55

philanthropy, a philanthropist

Question 56

aider qqn, l'aide / l'assistance

Answer 56

to assist sby, assistance

Question 57

allouer, une allocation

Answer 57

to allow, an allowance

Question 58

des allocations, les prestations sociales

Answer 58

benefits, welfare