The strategy of conflict – The Hindu Mar 16, 2018
A little over two months into 2018, the violence on the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) stretch of the India-Pakistan border has reached a new high: more than 633 ceasefire violations (CFVs) by Pakistan have been reported by New Delhi which have claimed the lives of 12 civilians and 10 soldiers. . For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
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Advanced Word List 1 (To Improve English Vocabulary)
- ceasefire (noun) – truce; a temporary stoppage of a war.
- habitat (noun) – natural environment, natural territory, home/abode.
- calibre (noun) – standard, level/grade, quality.
- mortar (noun) – a short gun for shooting shells (bombs) at high angles.
- artillery (noun) – big guns, ordnance, cannons.
- tank (noun) – armoured vehicle, combat vehicle.
- sheer (adjective) – utter, total, complete.
- calibrated (adjective) – carefully assessed, evaluated.
- bombardment (noun) – bombing, shelling (continuous attack).
- infiltration (noun) – an act of moving/entering secretively into a place.
- sporadic (adjective) – occasional, infrequent, irregular.
- rapprochement (noun) – reconciliation, agreement, cooperation.
- incumbent (adjective) – current, existing, present.
- the establishment (noun) – the authorities, the system, the regime.
- outweigh (verb) – supersede, offset, cancel out.
- provocation (noun) – prompting, inducement, incitement.
- persist (verb) – continue, remain, be prolonged.
- hardliner (noun) – a group/a political party with people who support a strict ideas and they are extreme & uncompromising.
- beheading (noun) – the act of cutting off a person’s head (as a form of execution).
- spate (noun) – series, string, flurry.
- up the ante (phrase) – to take an action that raises the stakes (risks), i.e. that increases the chances of conflict/dispute.
- concession (noun) – surrender, yielding, giving up.
- shun (verb) – avoid, ignore, reject.
- laden (with) (adjective) – loaded, burdened, weighed down.
- dispensation (noun) – system, arrangement, organization.
- muscular (adjective) – vigorous, robust, strong/powerful.
- shrink (verb) – lessen, reduce, decrease.
- frenzy (noun) – madness, mania/wild behaviour, distraction/agitation.
- inferiority (noun) – lowliness, inferior status/position; substandardness.
- vis-a-vis (preposition) – in relation to, with regard to.
- rhetoric (noun) – heroics/ornateness, hyperbole/extravagant language.
- crack down on (phrasal verb) – get tough on, take severe measures against, clamp down on.
