La Haine Vocab

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un affrontement
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a confrontation
une arme
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a weapon
une banlieue
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a suburb
une bavure (policière)
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a blunder (by the police)
le béton
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concrete
une blague
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a joke
un casseur
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a hooligan troublemaker
le chômage
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un chômeur unemployment / an unemployed person
une cité
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a housing project (the area not the building)
la colère / en colère anger
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angry
un commissariat
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police station
la (petite) délinquance
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(minor) delinquency
les différences culturelles (ethniques cultural (ethnic
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cultural (ethnic religious...) differences
la drogue
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drugs
une émeute
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a riot
les espaces verts
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parks green spaces
un flingue
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a gun
un grand ensemble
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housing project (generally very large tall building)
une HLM (habitation à loyer modéré)
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low income or subsidized housing
une manifestation (une manif)
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a demonstration a protest
un policier / un flic a police officer /
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a cop (informal)
le racisme
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racism
le sexisme
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sexism
un voyou
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a rascal; bandit; hoodlum/ thug
se casser
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to leave/take off (informal)
s’ennuyer
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to be bored
ronger
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attack /eat away at
tirer (sur)
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to shoot (at)
traîner
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to drag about to hang around (informal)
venger / se venger de
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to avenge / to get revenge
animé(e)
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animated lively bustling
beur second generation
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North African French
bruyant(e)
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loud, noisy
délabré(e)
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dilapidated
désœuvré(e)
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idle, unoccupied
rénové(e)
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renovated
sensible (e.g. un quartier sensible)
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sensitive (here = troubled e.g. a problem area)
sûr(e)
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safe

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