Perfectionnement vocabulary 5
Perfectionnement vocabulary 5
27 NIMBY= not in my background terms
- Ashore
- Adverb
- On land.
- Example: We spent the day ashore.
- fr: A terre
- Blight
- noun
- Something that damages or spoils something else.
- Example: The vacant properties are a blight on the neighbourhood.
- fr: Corruption
- Brand
- Verb
- To describe someone or something as bad, especially when they do not deserve it.
- Example: I don't want to be branded as a rebel.
- fr: Traîter
- Canvas
- noun
- Cloth on which artists paint with oil paints.
- Example: The painting is oil on canvas.
- fr: Toile
- Casualities
- noun
- People injured or killed in a serious accident or war.
- Example: The shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties.
- fr: Victimes
- Commercial
- noun
- An advertisement on television or radio.
- Example: They looked like a family from a breakfast cereal commercial.
- fr: Annonce publicitaire
- Currently
- At the present time.
- Example: The EC is currently attempting greater economic integration.
- fr: Actuellement
- Desecrate
- verb
- To violate the sacred character of a place.
- Example: More than 300 graves were desecrated.
- fr: Profaner
- Developer
- noun
- Someone who buys land or buildings in order to put new or better buildings there and make money from them.
- fr: Développeur
- Dog-tired
- Adjective
- Exhausted.
- Example: Even though he was dog tired after long days in the mines, Dad would still pitch batting practice to me in the backyard when he got home from work.
- fr: Fatigué de chien
- Encroachment
- noun
- A gradual advance beyond usual or acceptable limits.
- Example: Urban encroachment of habitat.
- fr: Envahissement
- Inch
- noun
- A unit of linear measure equal to one twelfth of a foot.
- Example: The toy train is four inches long.
- fr: Pouce
- Insignia
- noun
- A badge or emblem of military rank, office or membership of an organisation.
- Example: A khaki uniform with colonel's insignia on the collar.
- fr: Insigne
- Matchstick
- noun
- Used to light a fire.
- Example: They use a matchstick to light a fire.
- fr: Allumette
- Off-limits
- Adjective
- When you cannot have access to something.
- Example: The site was off limits to the public.
- fr: Hors limites
- On hold
- Adjective
- When a project is temporarily postponed.
- Example: He has had to put his career on hold.
- fr: En attente
- Outraged
- Adjective
- Angered at something unjust, unfair or wrong.
- Example: The public were outraged at the brutality involved.
- fr: Indigné
- Proponent
- noun
- Someone who publicy supports an idea, policy, plan...
- Example: A strong proponent of the free market and liberal trade policies.
- fr: Adepte
- Renewable
- Adjective
- A natural source not depleted when used.
- Example: A shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
- fr: Renouvelable
- Sensitivity
- noun
- The quality of understanding people's feelings and being careful not to hurt them.
- Example: A total lack of common decency and sensitivity.
- fr: Sensibilité
- Sound
- noun
- A long narrow area of water that connects two larger areas of water.
- fr: Son de l'eau
- Tidal Island
- noun
- A piece of land that is connected to the mainland.
- Example: A Tidal Island cannot always be reached on foot.
- fr: Îles des marées
- To axe
- verb
- To close a business, stop providing a service.
- Example: The company is axing 125 jobs.
- fr: Annuler
- To wreck
- verb
- To destroy or badly damage.
- Example: The blast wrecked 100 houses.
- fr: Saccager
- Vacation compound
- noun
- It is made up of private holidays homes in an enclosed area.
- Example: They decided to go on vacation compound for them not to have to move out.
- fr: Complexe de vacances
- Wind farm
- noun
- A trubin that can generate electricity.
- fr: Parc éolien
- Wind turbin
- noun
- When several are built in a limited area.
- fr: Eolienne
