News In Brief 5 Flashcards by Lison Tabardel

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Démesuré

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Overweening

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Implacable

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Relentless

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Un baratineur

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A gasbag

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Maladroit

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Feckless
Clumsy
Bumbling

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Des pieds d’argile

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Feet of clay

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Se montrer digne de

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To live up for

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Hors du commun

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Larger-than-life

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Le service militaire

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The draft

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Une tentative de coup d’état

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A coup attempt

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Le fait de faire sa propre publicité

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Self-puffery

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Une gaffe

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A blooper

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Profiter de

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To benefit from

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Stupide

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Stupide
Inane

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Animer une réunion publique

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To host a town hall

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Calomnier

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To slander

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Un candidat

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A contender
A candidate

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Cependant

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However
Though

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Une grande gueule

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A windbag

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Imparfait

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Flawed
Imperfect

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Souffler

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To blow,blew,blown

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Élargi

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Blown up
Enlarged

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Extreme

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Ex’treme

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Un projet de loi

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A bill

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Une discussion, un débat, un conflit

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A dis’pute

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Ratifier une loi

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To sign à bill into law

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Illégalement

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Un’lawfully

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Suspecter qn

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To sus’pect sb/sth of V-ing

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Entrer dans un état

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To cross into the state
To enter the state

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La clause suprême de la constitution

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The Su’premacy Clause of the Consti’tution

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La responsabilité du gvt fédéral

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The ‘federal ‘government’s responsability

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Magazine américain de commentaires politique

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The New Re’public

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Gouverneur américain du Texas

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‘Governor Grégoire Abott

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Préférer

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‘Rather than
Insted of

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Une deportation

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A re’moval
A deportation

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Agiter

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To wave

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Un insigne

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An i’signia

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Scander des slogans

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To chant

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Manifester

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To match

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Declencher

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To spark

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2 douzaines

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Two ‘dozen
Invariable qd il est précédé d un nb

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Qui monte en flèche

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‘skyrocketing

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Inflexible

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‘Hardline
Uncompromising
Unflexible

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La rhétorique

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○rhetoric
(A kind of speech)

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Antisémitisme

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Anti’semitisme

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Islamophobie

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Islamo’phobia

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S’étendre sur

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To stretch into

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Le ministre des affaires étrangères

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A Foreign Secretary

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Spectaculaire

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Dra’matic

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Le1er ministre anglais de 2010 à 2016

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Former Prime Ministère David Cameron

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La réorganisation

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The shuffle

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Attiser

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To in’flame

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Prendre parti pour

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To side with

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Demander des comptes à qq un

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To hold (held held) sb to account

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La chambre des communes

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House of Commons

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Une des figures du gouvernement les plus polarisé

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One of the government’s most polarizing figures

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Le referendum du brexit

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The ‘Brexit refe’rendum

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Les 3 autres 1er ministres conservateurs

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3 other former Conservative Prime Ministers
Theresa May, Boris Johnson Lizz Truss

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L’ancienne secrétaire d’Etat

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Former Home Secretary Suella Braveman

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Le roi l’a nommé à la chambre des Lords

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King Charles appointed him to the House of Lords