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Unite 4
La nostalgie du pays
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accueillir | to welcome |
| améliorer | to improve |
| bouleversement (m) | upheaval |
| chômage (m) | unemployment |
| cristalliser | to crystallise, to concentrate |
| dépaysé(e) | to not feel at home |
| faire monter | cause a rise in |
| inondation (f) | flood |
| insécurité | insecurity |
| involontaire | unwanted, forced |
| mal (m) maux (pl) | harm |
| nostalgie (f) du pays | homesickness |
| sécheresse (f) | drought |
| souffrance (f) | difficulty, suffering |
| tremblement (m) de terre | earthquake |
| volontaire | voluntary, willing |
| allocation (f) | allowance |
| atteindre | to reach |
| avoir lieu | to take place, to occur |
| discours (m) | speech ,position |
| emploi (m) | employment |
| envahir | to overrun, to invade |
| faire preuve | to show |
| milieu (m) social | environment |
| souvent | often |
| Algérie (f) | Algeria |
| amer/amère | bitter |
| angoisse (f) | anxiety, worry |
| avoir le droit | to be allowed, to have a right to |
| Caldoche (m/f) | French citizen living in New Caledonia |
| campagne (f) de terrorisme | a terrorist campaign |
| chrétien(ne) | Christian |
| colonisateur (m) | coloniser |
| également | equally, just as... |
| en tant que | as |
| entreprise (f) | business |
| interdire | to forbid |
| mal (m) du pays | homesickness (for a country) |
| malentendu (m) | misunderstanding |
| marcher | to work, to be possible |
| musulman(e) | Muslim |
| oser | to dare |
| pied-noir (m/f) | French citizen living formerly in Algeria |
| porter le tchador | to wear the Muslim headdress |
| rafale (f) | burst (of gunfire) |
| augmenter | to increase |
| baisser | to decrease |
| en baisse | decreasing |
| camion (m) | truck |
| clandestin(e) | secret, hidden, illegal |
| dissoudre | to dissolve, to melt into |
| embrasser | to embrace (literal), to encompass (figurative) |
| enceinte (f) des écoles | school precincts |
| freiner | to put a break on, to slow down |
| main-d'œuvre (f) | workforce, labour force |
| paraître | to seem |
| pays (m) d'accueil | welcoming or host country |
| port (m) du voile | wearing the veil or hijab |
| recrutement (m) | recruitment, signing-up |
| terre (f) d'asile | asylum, place of refuge |
| vague (f) | wave |
| à peine | hardly, scarcely |
| aisé(e) | well-off |
| arc-en-ciel (m) | rainbow |
| bailleur/bailleresse | renting officer |
| banlieue (f) | suburb |
| berge (f) | river edge |
| compter | to contain, to count |
| décennie (f) | decade |
| se déplacer | to move |
| s'efforcer | to make an effort |
| gérer | to manage, to look after |
| hausse (f) | rise |
| immobilier (m) | real estate |
| s'installer | to settle |
| logements (mpl) sociaux | low-rent housing |
| loyer (m) | rent |
| maintenir | to maintain |
| ménage (m) | household |
| montant (m) | sum, price |
| moyenne (f) | the average, the mean |
| répartir | to spread |
| ruelle (f) | small lane |
| séduire | attract |
| traiter | to deal with |
| à proximité | near |
| arrestation (f) | arrest |
| s'attendre à | to expect |
| décès (m) | death |
| déclencheur (m) | trigger (factor) |
| délabré(e) | run-down, in a poor state |
| durée (f) | time, period |
| échec (m) | setback, failure |
| égalitaire | egalitarian, offering equal chances |
| électrocution (f) | electrocution |
| embraser | to inflame |
| émeute (f) | riot |
| émeutier(-ière) | rioter |
| envenimer | to make or turn nasty |
| état (m) d'urgence | state of emergency |
| forces (fpl) de l'ordre | riot police |
| gaz (m) lacrymogène | tear gas |
| grenade (f) | hand-thrown explosive |
| incendier | to set fire to |
| lancer | to throw |
| marginaliser | to marginalize, to 'freeze out' |
| mépriser | to scorn, to put down |
| mosquée (f) | mosque |
| poste source électrique | electric power substation |
| poursuivre | to pursue |
| rassembler | to call together |
| se répandre | to spread |
| sapeur-pompier (m) | fireman |
| témoigner | to show, to illustrate |
| à plusieurs reprises | on several occasions |
| exclure | to exclude |
| laïcité (f) | lay or non-religious nature |
| ostentatoire | ostentatious, very visible |
| se résoudre | to sort itself out, to be decided |
| retirer | to take off |
| comportement (m) | behaviour |
| contrôle (m) | police check |
| contrôle routier | road block/check |
| contrôleur (m) | conductor, inspector |
| courber l'échine (f) | to bow down to |
| exiger | to demand |
| fouille (f) au corps | body search |
| fusil-mitrailleur (m) | machine-gun |
| moindre | least |
| plainte (f) | complaint |
| prétendre | to claim |
| science (f) de l'information | information technology |
| subir | to undergo |
| tutoyer | to use the familiar 'tu' form in speaking |
| viser | to aim at |
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