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78 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
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to appoint
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discuter
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to discuss
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un electeur/electrice
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voter
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elire
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to elect
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etre candidate
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to run
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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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to fight 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 politique interieure
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internal policy
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un proleme/une question
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issue
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un programme electoral
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platform
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se representer
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to run again
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soutenir
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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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attaquer
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to attack
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un attentat
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attack
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ceder (a)
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to give up , to 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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les forces
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forces
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le front
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front lines
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insense
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insane
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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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les morts
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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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le peine de mort
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death penalty
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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 terrorisme
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terrorism
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tuer
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to kill
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s'accoutumer a
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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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concu(e)
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esigned, planned
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convaincre
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to convince
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en verre
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made of glass
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gacher
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to spoil
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honteux
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shamefull
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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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ugly ghastly
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une oeuvre
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work ( of art)
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passionnant(e)
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exciting
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remarquable/ spectacular
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" "
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renover
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to renovate
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reussi
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successful, well executed
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super
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familiar /super
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supprimer
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to do away with
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accroitre
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to increase
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l'accuil
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welcome
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accuillant(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, fall guy
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le chomage
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uneployment
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un chomeur/une chomeuse
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unemployed person
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croissante(e)
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increasing, growing
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eclaireer
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to enlighten
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empirer
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to worsen
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une immigrante
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newly arrived immigrant
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une immigre
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and immigrant well established in the foreine coutnry
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un incendie
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fire
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maghrebin(e)
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rom the Maghreb (Northwest Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)
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la main-d'oeuvre
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labor
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une manifestation
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deomonstration, protest (orginized)
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une menace
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threat
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les quartiers defavorises
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slums
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repandre
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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(fear/hatred of foreigners)
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