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Vocab March-April Flashcards

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Taxer les milliardaires jusqu’à ce qu’ils disparaissent

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To tax billionaires out of existence

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Cela ne compte pas

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It does not hold

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To assess (s)

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To gauge

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L’objectif final

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Thé end goal

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Impliquer

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To entail

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Redorer son image

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To burnish one’s image

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L’influence

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Leverage

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Se racheter

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To redeem

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9
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Prodigieusement

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Stupendously

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10
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Être vu d’un mauvais œil

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To be frowned upon

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11
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Croissance illimitée

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Unbounded growth

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Fustiger / critiquer très sévèrement

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To lambast

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Douteux, suspect

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Dubious

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14
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Le fossé béant

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The yawning gap

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Au rythme

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At the pace

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16
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Caprices

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Whims

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17
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Harmful (s)

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Nefarious

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18
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Surfait

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Overrated

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19
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Y perdre

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To lose out

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20
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Les failles (du système)

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The loopholes (of the system)

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21
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Le baccalauréat

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A-level

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Lycée general

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Sixth-form (college) : lycée general

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23
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Critique cinglante, + le criticisme cinglant

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Scathing criticism

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24
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Crier au scandale

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To cry foul

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25
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To promote (s)

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To further

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Ayons une pensée pour

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Spare a thought

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27
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Donner une connotation particulière au débat

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To spin (a debate)

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28
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To fall appart

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To unravel

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29
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To protect one’s power (s)

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To gatekeeper one’s power

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30
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Extravagantly (s)

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Lavishly

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31
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Attack (s)

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Onslaught / onset

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At their disadvantage (s)

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At their expense

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To be deeply rooted in (s)

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To be embedded in sth

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To increase, to rise (s)

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To ratchet up

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S’irriter de / s’hérisser à l’idée de

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To bristle

36
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Encore un/une autre

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Yet another

37
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A long terme

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In the long run

38
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Supprimer des emplois

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To cut / shed jobs

39
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Éviter une question

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To dodge a question

40
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Marques de pneu

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To skid

41
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Une chronique

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A column

42
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Dernier cri / ultra moderne

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Newfangled

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Parcourir

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To roam

44
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Faire une croisière / rouler tranquillement

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To cruise

45
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Déambuler / errer

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Wander, meander

46
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S’extasier

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To rave about something

47
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Vanter les mérites de qqchose

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To tout something as

48
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Louer qq

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To praise, to speak highly of

49
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Voler qq à qq

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To steal sth from sby

50
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Un criminel (pas a criminal)

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An offender

51
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A con artist (s)

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A scam artist

52
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Être condamné à x années de prison

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To be sentenced to x years in jail

53
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Être condamné à vie

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To get a life sentence

54
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Un braquage (pas hold up)

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To heist

55
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To commit a felony (s)

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To commit a crime

56
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Pénétrer illégalement qq part, sans autorisation

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To trepass

57
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Petite délinquance

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Petty crime

58
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Prononcer un mot

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To utter a word

59
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Révéler

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To disclose

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Susciter

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To arouse

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Au lieu de

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Instead of

62
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Un dépanneur

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A breakdown mechanic

63
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Tricoter

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To knit

64
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Un impair (commettre un impair)

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A blunder (to make a blunder)

65
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Se stabiliser

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To settle down

66
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Un critère, des critères

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A criterion, criteria

67
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Les nombres impairs et pairs

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Odd (impairs) and even numbers

68
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To get hired (s)

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To be taken on

69
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Un caddie, un chariot de courses (2)

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A cart, a trolley

70
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Tubes à essai

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Test tubes

71
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Des futurs parents (3)

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Prospective parents, parents to be, would be parents

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73
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Croire en / croire

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To believe in / to believe

74
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Bâcler

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To botch

75
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Think-thank

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Un groupe d’experts

76
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Asile

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Asylum

77
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Avoir des défauts

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To have flows

78
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Camion

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Lorry

79
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Camion

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Lorry

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