L'Anti-Americanisme Vocabulaire
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gtreffinger on August 27, 2010
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39 terms
French | English |
|---|---|
 un aveu | a confession |
| une faiblesse | a weakness |
| abonder | to abound/grow |
| un indice | a clue/sign |
| une cible | a target |
| viser | to aim |
| feindre | to pretend/simulate |
| tout y passe | everything goes |
| la peine de mort | the death penalty |
| la malbouffe | junk food |
| le FMI (Fond Monetaire Internationale) | the International Monetary Funds |
| un sondage | a survey/poll |
| se mefier | to distrust |
| jeremiades | complaints |
| un parvenu | "nouveau riche" |
| en outre | besides |
| soupconner | to suspect |
| dissimuler | cacher (to hide) |
| un attentat | an attack/bombing |
| mefiance | mistrust |
| s'accroitre | to increase |
| declencher | to set off (an alarm) |
| sournois | sly |
| epargner | to spare |
| echanges | exchanges |
| les changements | changes |
| compagnies de location de voiture | rental car companies |
| une chaine | a chain |
| qui nous font defaut | that we miss/lack |
| savants | scientists |
| maintenir | to maintain |
| echelle | scale/ladder |
| gestion | management |
| les actionnaires | shareholders |
| la Bourse | the stock exchange |
| avoir une bourse | to have received a scholarship |
| les medias (un media) | the media |
| guerir | to cure |
| desarrois | disarray |
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