Voc Flashcards

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The melting-pot

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Le creuset

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To set forth

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Exposer/faire connaître

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Prejudice

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Des préjuges

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4
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To melt

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Fondre

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5
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A crucible

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Un creuser

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To blend

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Se mélanger

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7
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The play premiered in…

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La première de la pièce a eu lieu

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A phrase

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Une expression

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9
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In the wake of

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Suite à

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In the midst of a debat

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En plein débat

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Deceptive

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Trompeur

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12
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On the grounds that

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Au motif que

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13
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WASPs

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White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

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14
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Hence (+noun)

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D’où

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15
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A stew

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Un ragout

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16
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To dismiss

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Rejeter/écarter

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Empowerment

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La responsabilisation

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To come To the fore

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Se manifester/être mis en avant

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To translate into

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Se traduire par

20
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Brand-new

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Flambant neuf

21
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To take sides with

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Prendre parti pour…

22
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To resent something

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Être contrarié par / indigne de

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The mainstream

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Le courant dominant

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To bring about

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Unprecedented
Sans précédent
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To cluster
Se rassembler
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To worship
Pratiquer sa religion / vouer un culte à
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A critic
Un opposant / | un détracteur
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The social fabric
Le tissu social
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Income
Les revenus
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To lag behind
Être à la traîne
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When it comes to
Quand il s'agit de
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A dead-end job
Un travail sans perspectives
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To frame a concept
Formuler / concevoir
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To encapsulate
Résumer / englober
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To posit
Postuler
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A hyphen
Un trait d'union
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Disparagingly
Péjorativement
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Amperstand
Esperluette
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Phrase 1
For instance, Hispanic immigrants have tented to cluster in segregated neighboorhoods and worship in separate church
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Phrase 2
To him a move away from culturalism is needed to avoid "ethnoracial particularism".
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Phrase 3
It can also be interpreted to show that neither of the two identities should be deemed superior to the other.