The refined vocabulary of professional and economic discourse.
to practise a profession
the workforce/headcount
remuneration
redundancy
arduousness (of work)
to draw a salary
the governing bodies
career change
to take up one’s duties
to work/strive (literary)
At C2 this is about mastery of the edge cases and literary or formal uses. You should be able to explain the rule — and break it knowingly for effect.
Feeling shaky? Step back to Le Travail at C1. Comfortable? Level up to Le Travail at Native.
Il ___ la profession de notaire. (practises) (verbe)
exerce
Réduire les ___ . (workforce) (noun)
effectifs
Elle ___ pour la paix. (strives, literary) (verbe)
œuvre
🃏 Memory match pair FR ↔ EN
🧩 Sentence builder put the words in order