| A | B |
|---|
| un alcoolique | alcoholic |
| l'alcoolisme | alcoholism |
| la pollution | pollution |
| la maladie | sickness/disease |
| l'ivresse au volant | drunk driving |
| l'ivresse publique | public intoxication |
| ivre | drunk |
| le SIDA | AIDS |
| la tuberculose | tuberculosis |
| le cancer | cancer |
| les épidémies | epidemics |
| l'excès | excess |
| le chômage | unemployment |
| un chômeur | an unemployed person |
| le meurtre | murder |
| un beur | child of a North African immigrant |
| le Maghreb | North African region--Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia |
| les Maghrébins | people from North Africa--Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria |
| la pauvreté | poverty |
| la drogue | drugs |
| un sans-abri/SDF (sans domicile fixe) | a homeless person |
| un sans papiers | an illegal immigrant |
| un séropositif | someone who is HIV positive |
| PCF | party on the extreme LEFT |
| les Verts | party focused on ecology and the environment |
| PS | the socialist party, just LEFT of center |
| UDF | democratic group of parties, just RIGHT of center |
| RPR | party who allows, but limits immigration, RIGHT |
| FN | party of the extreme RIGHT, against immigration |
