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L'environnement Flashcards

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1
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La faune

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Wildlife

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La flora

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Plant life

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A fire

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Un feu

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Deforestation

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Le déboisement

La déforestation

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La sécheresse

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Drought

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Le réchauffement climatique

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Global warming

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Waste

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Le gaspillage

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A flood

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Une inondation

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To flood

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Inonder

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L’effet de serre

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Greenhouse effect

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Le charbon

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Carbon

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Le gaz à l’effet de serre

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Greenhouse gases

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La désertification

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Drought/ turning into a desert

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An icecap

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Une calotte glaciaire

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Endangered

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En voie d’extinction

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La croissance

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Growth

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Le mazout

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Fuel oil

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18
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To damage

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Abîmer

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An ice cap

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Une calotte glaciare

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Fuel

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Le combustible

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21
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Une recrudescene

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An increase

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Une canicule

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A heat wave

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S’assombrir

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To get darker

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To get worse

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Empirer

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Shortage

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La pénurie

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A hurricane

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Un ouragon

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Un naufrage

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Shipwreck

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Les ordures (f)

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Rubbish

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29
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To drain/ use up

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Épuiser

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A ship

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Un navire

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A curve

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Une courbe

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32
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Vicié

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Contaminated

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33
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Le dégagement

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Emission

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34
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Le surpâturage

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Heavy grazing

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Highways/roads

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La voirie

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36
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Landslides

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Les glissements de terre

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37
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To boil

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Bouillir

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38
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Littoral

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Coastal

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39
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La raréfaction

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Scarcity

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Un atout

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An asset

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41
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Tiède

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Tepid/lukewarm

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42
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Wood

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Le bois

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To feed/supply

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Alimenter

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Construction

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La mise en œuvre

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La barrage

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A dam

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Chasser

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To drive out

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Le démantèlement

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Dismantling

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The management

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La géstion

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Viability/ profitability

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La rentabilité

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The supply

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L’approvisionnement (m)

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Putrescible

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Biodegradable

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L’essence (f)

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Petrol

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L’énergie marémotrice

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Tidal energy

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Wind energy

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L’énergie éolienne

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An oil slick

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Une marée noire

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Un débouché

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A job prospect

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Performant

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Reliable, efficient

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Fissurer

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To crack

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Drilling

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Le forage

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To trap

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Piéger

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Self-sufficiency

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L’autarcie (f)

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Un robinet

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A tap

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Une ampoule

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A lightbulb

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Un auto-collant

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A sticker

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An exhaust

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Un pot d’échappement

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Wrapping/ packaging

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L’emballage

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A can

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Une cannette

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En veillle

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Standby

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Le sèche-linge

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Tumble dryer

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Un couvercle

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A lid

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Flesh

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La chair

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Les engrais

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Fertilisers

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Les ailerons

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Fins

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Prey

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Une proie

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Poaching

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Le braconnage

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Wells

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Les puits (m)

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Les nappes phréatiques

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Underground water layers

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Un adhérent

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A member

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Lead

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Le plombe

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A catalytic converter

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Le pot catalytique

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Spillage

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Le déversement

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Le parc automobile

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Total number of cars

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Disposer de

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To have (available)

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User

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To use up

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Oil pipeline

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L’oléoduc (m)

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Sustainable

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Soutenable, durable

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Nitrogen dioxide

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Le protoxyde d’azote

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Nier

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To deny

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Rétrécir

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To shrink

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Le carottage de glace

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Ice sampling

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Using rail

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Ferroriaire

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Fertilisers

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Les engrais

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Traffic jam

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Un bouchon

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Theory test

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Un code de la route

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Signaler

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To announce

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La décharge

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The dump

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Se soucier de

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To worry about

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A recycling bin

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Un bac de recyclage

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A residence permit

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Un permis de séjour

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Sensibiliser

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To make aware

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Les bennes de recyclage

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Recycling bins

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La nappe phréatique

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Ground water

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To regulate to falling of trees

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Aménager

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Léguer qqch à qqn

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To hand something down to someone

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Une brochure

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A leaflet

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To throw away

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Jeter

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Devastated

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Ravagé/dévasté

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Survival

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La survie

109
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An oil tank

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Un pétrolier

French A2 (10 decks)

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