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Second World War
A2-Level
Term | Definition |
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ses relais | relays |
de renseignement | intelligence |
le sauvatage | rescue |
évadés | escape |
rassemblé | brought together |
dirige | united |
l'égide | protection |
vaincue | beaten |
trancher la gorger | cut his throat |
tirailleurs | spontaneous fight |
face a | against |
se déshonerer | dishonoured |
soigné | cured |
reconnaît | recognised |
divers | difference |
du coup | as a result |
n'exclut | didn't exclude |
méfie | wary |
processus | process |
front populaire | political party opposed to Petain |
condamner | convict |
soi-disant | so-called |
la faiblesse | weakness |
la rigour | strength |
remis | sent |
agit | act |
paraît | appears |
effectuer | performs |
principalement | mainly |
armée | army |
provisoire | provisional |
vaincrunt | will conquer |
d'études | investigation |
fondé | founded |
lacé | launched |
à proximité | near |
navires | ships |
endommager | dammaged |
regagne | regained |
malgré | inspite |
entité | policy |
tient | held |
mourra | died |
décedé | died |
soumis | subjected to |
cendres | ashes |
dévoile | reveal |
thèse | reports |
insurection | violent uprising |
départ | start |
centaine | hundred |
l'ampleur | bigger |
chars | tanks |
chassés | hunted |
niçois | Nice (area of country) |
agissant | were acting |
s'engageaient | engaged |
réseaux | network |
mouvements | group of people |
recensés | identified |
rattachés | attached |
la complicité | involvement |
la police | state police |
la gendarmeries | local police |
voyaient | saw |
sauveur | saviour |
filidres | sections |
attribués | placed trust in him |
parmi | among |
instituteurs | teachers |
des universitaires | academics |
militaires de carrière | career soldiers |
journal | newspaper |
feuiller | leaflet |
propager | generate |
la propagande | propaganda |
d'accueil | host/ welcome |
la complicité | knowledge |
service de renseignement | intelligence service |
cheminots | railway workers |
rentraient | were returning |
précieuses | valuable |
renseignement | information |
repérer | spot |
émetteurs radio | radio transmitters |
le meurtre | murder |
lutte armée | resistance branch (tried not to kill anyone) |
maquis | hard core resistance branch |