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82 Cards in this Set
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une campagne electorale
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election campaign
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un debat
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debate
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designer/nommer
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to appoint
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un deuxieme tour
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run-off election
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disctuer (de)
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to discuss
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un electeur/une electrice
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voter
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elire (past - elu)
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to elect
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etre candidate(e) (a la presidence)
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to run (for president)
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se faire inscrire
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to register (to vote)
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la lutte (contre)
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fight, struggle (against)
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un mandat
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term of office
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la politique etrangere
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foreign policy
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la politque interieure
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internal (domestic) policy
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un probleme/une question
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issue
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un programme electoral
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platform
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reelire (past - reelu)
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to reelect
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se (re)presenter
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to run (again)
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sountenir
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to support
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voter
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to vote
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l'armee
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army
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les armes de destruction massive
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weapons of mass destruction
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attaquer
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to attack
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un attenant
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attack
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ceder a
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to give up; give in
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les combats
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fighting
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le conflit
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conflict
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une embuscade
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ambush
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les forces
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forces
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le front
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front; front lines
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liberer
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to free
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livrer
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to deliver
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la mort; les morts
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death; the dead
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la negociation
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negotiation
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la paix
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peace
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la peine de mort
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death penalty
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la polemique
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controversy
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les pourparlers
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talks, negotiations
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prendre en otage
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to take hostage
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se produire
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to happen, take place
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le soldat
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soldier
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le terrorisme
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terrorism
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tuer
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to kill
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la conception
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design, plan
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en verre/en metal/en terre battue
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made of glass/metal/adobe
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une oeuvre
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work (of art)
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renover
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to renovate
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s'accoutumer
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to get used to
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attirer
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to attract
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chouette
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neat, nice, great
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convaincre
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to convince
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honteux (honteuse)
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shameful
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insupportable
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intolerable/unbearable
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laid(e)
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ugly
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moche
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(familiar) ugly, ghastly
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passionant(e)
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exciting
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remarquable/ spectaculaire
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remarkable/spectacular
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reussi(e)
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successful, well executed
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supprimer
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to do away with
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s'accriote
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to increase
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l'accueil
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welcome
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accueillant(e)
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welcoming, friendly
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s'aggraver
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to get worse
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la banlieue
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the suburbs
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blesser
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to hurt
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un bouc emissaire
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scapegoat
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le chomage
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unemployment
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un chomeur/une chomeuse
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unemployed person
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croissant(e)
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increasing, growing
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eclairer
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to enlighten
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les emeutes
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riots
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empirer
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to worsen
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un(e) immigrant(e)
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newly arrived immigrant
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un(e) immigre(e)
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an immigrant well established in the foreign country
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un incendie
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fire
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la main-d'oeuvre
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labor
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une manifestation/manifester
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demonstration, protest/to demonstrate, protest
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une menace
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threat
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les quartiers sensibles
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slums
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repandres
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to spread
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rouer quelqu'un de coups
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to beat someone black and blue
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la xenophobie
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xenophobia
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un sans-abri
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homeless person
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