Vocabulaire from Articles | 8/20/13

Question 1

Le Rubicon

Answer 1

A point of no return

Le Rubicon traversé!

Question 2

débarquer

Answer 2

to unload, to disembark, to turn up

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

Question 3

Tout de suite

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straightaway, at once

Question 4

redresser

Answer 4

to straighten or sort out, to set upright

Question 5

une œuvre

Answer 5

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

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

Question 6

des œuvres

Answer 6

(nf) deeds, good works

Question 7

parlait d’elle-même

Answer 7

spoke for itself (herself)

Question 8

la faillite

Answer 8

bankruptcy / collapse

pron = fight-eet

Question 9

la milliardaire

Answer 9

(nm/f) billionaire

Question 10

moderniste

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(adj) modernist

Question 11

généreusement

Answer 11

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

Answer 13

(nf) temptation

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de piocher dans

Answer 14

(exp) to dip into

Question 15

le tableau

Answer 15

(nm) painting

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valeur

Answer 16

value

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bannir

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to banish

Nous serons bannis (We will be banished)

Question 18

la confiance

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the trust / confidence

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encore que

Answer 19

although, or still …. than

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

Question 20

se battre

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to fight

Je me bats souvent avec mon frère.

Question 21

glisser

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to glide, to slip

to fit into

Question 22

rester

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to stay

to be left with, to remain

Question 23

de la place

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space

….qu’il resterait encore de la place

Question 24

une âme

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(nf) soul

pron = like “arm” but without the “r”

Question 25

une émeute

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(nf) riot

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aller chercher

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to go and get / to pick up

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plus lointaines

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(adj) more distant

les banlieues plus lointaines

Question 28

puis ce sont

Answer 28

Then, there are

Then, they are

Question 29

laborieuse

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laborious (la - bor - rie - use)

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ailleurs

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elsewhere, somewhere else

pron = “ahye - yur”

Question 31

se vider

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to empty
vide = (adj) empty

Des rues se sont vidées

Question 32

entier, entière

Answer 32

entire, whole

Des rues entières…

Question 33

par désœuvrement

Answer 33

for want/lack of anything better

Question 34

un bidon d’essence

Answer 34

(nm) petrol can

Question 35

une boîte d’allumettes

Answer 35

box of matches

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mettre le feu à

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to set fire to, to set on fire

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par centaines

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in hundreds, by hundreds

sun-ten

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remplacer

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to replace

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fantôme

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ghost, phantom

une ville fantôme (ghost town)

Question 40

cadavre

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corpse, dead body

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exhumer

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to exhume

Question 42

le cimetière

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(nm) cemetery

pron = “seem - tière”
le cimetière de voitures (scrapyard)

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enterrer

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to bury

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approvisionnement

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supply / supplying, provisions

Question 45

traverser

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to cross / to pass through

On a traversé la France pour aller en Espagne.