Vocabulaire from Articles | 8/20/13 Flashcards

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Le Rubicon

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A point of no return

Le Rubicon traversé!

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débarquer

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to unload, to disembark, to turn up

Quand il a vu débarquer dans son musée les hommes de l’administrateur… il a compris.

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Tout de suite

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straightaway, at once

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redresser

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to straighten or sort out, to set upright

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une œuvre

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work, works (as in painting, work of art)

pron = “uh-v” like the “u” sound in “sea urchin”

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des œuvres

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(nf) deeds, good works

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parlait d’elle-même

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spoke for itself (herself)

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la faillite

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bankruptcy / collapse

pron = fight-eet

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la milliardaire

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(nm/f) billionaire

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moderniste

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(adj) modernist

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généreusement

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generously (gé - né - reuse - ment)

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confier (à)

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to entrust / to confide (2nd is reflexive)

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la tentation

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(nf) temptation

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de piocher dans

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(exp) to dip into

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le tableau

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(nm) painting

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valeur

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value

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bannir

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to banish

Nous serons bannis (We will be banished)

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la confiance

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the trust / confidence

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encore que

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although, or still …. than

La fermeture de DIA serait plus violente encore que la faillite de GM. (still more violent than)

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se battre

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to fight

Je me bats souvent avec mon frère.

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glisser

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to glide, to slip

to fit into

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rester

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to stay

to be left with, to remain

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de la place

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space

….qu’il resterait encore de la place

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une âme

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(nf) soul

pron = like “arm” but without the “r”

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une émeute
(nf) riot
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aller chercher
to go and get / to pick up
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plus lointaines
(adj) more distant | les banlieues plus lointaines
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puis ce sont
Then, there are | Then, they are
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laborieuse
laborious (la - bor - rie - use)
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ailleurs
elsewhere, somewhere else pron = "ahye - yur"
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se vider
to empty vide = (adj) empty Des rues se sont vidées
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entier, entière
entire, whole Des rues entières...
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par désœuvrement
for want/lack of anything better
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un bidon d'essence
(nm) petrol can
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une boîte d'allumettes
box of matches
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mettre le feu à
to set fire to, to set on fire
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par centaines
in hundreds, by hundreds | sun-ten
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remplacer
to replace
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fantôme
ghost, phantom une ville fantôme (ghost town)
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cadavre
corpse, dead body
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exhumer
to exhume
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le cimetière
(nm) cemetery pron = "seem - tière" le cimetière de voitures (scrapyard)
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enterrer
to bury
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approvisionnement
supply / supplying, provisions
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traverser
to cross / to pass through On a traversé la France pour aller en Espagne.