FLVS Environment Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
appauvrir | to impoverish |
éradiquer | erradicate |
errer | to wander |
mendier | to beg |
nécessiter | to need |
se nourrir de | to live on |
priver de | to deprive of |
répandre | to spread |
soulager | to relieve |
voler | to steal |
l'aide au développement (fem.) | development fundings/aid |
l'aide financière | financial aid |
analphabète | illiterate individual |
l'analphabétisme | illiteracy |
une association caritative, une "bonne œuvre" | charity ( group of people) |
l'avenir (masculine) | future |
le manque de= la carence de | lack of, deficiency |
la famine= la disette | famine |
la baraque | shack |
le bidonville | shantytown |
dans le besoin | in need, very poor |
partager | to share |
les biens (masc.) | goods |
la faim | hunger, starvation |
le pays sous-développé | underdevelloped country |
le pays en voie de développement | developing countries |
le Tiers Monde | the Third World |
le fossé | gap |
ceux qui ont faim | the hungry |
ceux qui meurent de soif | the one dying of thirst |
la répartition des richesses | distribution of wealth |
la croissance de la population | population growth |
aménager | to lay out, to equip |
arroser | to water |
collecter | to gather |
consommer | to consume |
contaminer | to contaminate, to pollute |
couler | to flow |
creuser un puits | to dig a well |
la désertification | desertification ( arid lands degrading and changing into deserts) |
filtrer | to filter |
fournir | to provide |
gaspiller | to waste |
inonder | to flood |
irriguer | to irrigate |
mourir de faim | to starve |
nourrir | to feed |
la malnutrition | malnutrition |
parrainer= sponsoriser | to sponsor |
subvenir à ses besoins | to meet one's needs, to make a living |
tarir | to run dry |
le barrage | dam ( over a river or lake) |
le bien-être | well-being |
l'eau potable | drinking water |
le fleuve, la rivière | large river, small river |
l'inondation | flood |
la rareté de | scarcity |
la sécheresse | draught |
la survie | survival |
durable | sustainable |
efficace | efficient |
sain | healthy |
précaire | precarious |
avoir un impact sur | to impact |
détruire | to distroy |
jeter | to throw away |
salir | to dirty |
recycler | to recycle |
se raréfier | to become rare |
protéger | to protect |
s'affaisser | to colapse |
anéantir | to annihilate |
bruler | to burn |
dévaler | to run down |
s'effondrer | to collapse |
ensevelir | to burry |
le tremblement de terre | earthquake |
évacuer | evacuate |
hospitaliser | to take into a hospital |
périr | to perish |
ravager | to devastate |
tuer | to kill |
un appui= un soutient | support |
la boue | mud |
le bilan | death toll |
la coulée de boue | mudslide |
une échelle | scale |
les dégâts ( masc.) | damage |
un fléau | calamity |
sinistré | affected by a disaster |
la tempête | storm |
la vague de chaleur | heatwave |
les secours | rescue team |
un incendie | fire |
le raz-de-marée , le tsunami | tidal wave, tsunami |
une éruption volcanique | volcanic eruption |
le commerce équitable | Fair Trade |
le réchauffement planétaire | Global warming |
l'effet de serre (masc.) | Geen house effect |
la fonte de la calotte glacière | the melting of the ice cap |
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