The Hindu Editorial (Days of disengagement) – Jul 08, 2020

After two months of stand-off along the LAC, news that India and China are discussing a full disengagement must be welcome relief. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Days of disengagement) – Jul 08, 2020.

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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Days of disengagement) – Jul 08, 2020

disengagement (noun) – withdrawal, departure, retreat (of military troops from an area of conflict).
Line of Actual Control (LAC) (noun) – the de-facto (effective) border between India and China. The LAC is a 4,057-km border running through three areas-Western (Ladakh, Ladakh (Kashmir)), middle (Uttarakhand, Himachal) and eastern (Sikkim, Arunachal).
standoff (noun) – deadlock, stalemate, impasse (in a dispute/conflict).
disengage (verb) – withdraw, pull out, leave, move out, retreat (of military troops from an area of conflict).
seek (verb) – try, aim, attempt, work towards.
ties (noun) – bond, association, relationship.
temper (verb) – moderate, modify, tone down, mitigate, soften.
de-escalate (verb) – diminish, lessen/decrease, dwindle (the intensity of a conflict).
hostility (noun) – opposition, aversion, enmity, antipathy; unfriendliness, bitterness.
pause (noun) – break/interval, temporary stoppage, suspension.
consensus (noun) – an idea or opinion that is shared by all the people in a group, agreement, concurrence.
tranquillity (noun) – peacefulness, restfulness, calmness, quietness.
carry out (phrasal verb) – conduct, perform, execute.
hot springs (noun) – Hot Springs (Kyam) is the location of an Indian border checkpost operated by Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in the Chang Chenmo River valley in Ladakh near the disputed border with China. It is so named because there is a hot spring at this location. (hot spring is generally a spring (well head) with water at temperatures substantially higher than the air temperature of the surrounding region).
be easier said than done (phrase) – used to say that something sounds like a good idea in theory, but it would be very difficult to do.
clash (noun) – conflict, fight, confrontation.
undertake (verb) – begin, start, commence, embark on.
de-escalation (noun) – reduction, lessening, decrease (the intensity of a potentially violent situation).
accompany (verb) – occur with, be present with, appear with, coincide with, coexist with.
end-point (noun) – finishing line.
set out (phrasal verb) – present, describe, detail.
course (noun) – plan of action, line of action, system, strategy, approach.
diplomatic (adjective) – (delicate & sensitive) consular, foreign-policy, political.
parley (noun) – negotiation, talk/dialogue, discussion.
mechanism (noun) – procedure, process, method/technique.
measure (noun) – step, action, course of action, plan of action, procedure.
buffer zone (noun) – a military no-go area; demilitarized zone, border zone.
pull back (phrasal verb) – withdraw, retreat, disengage.
status quo ante (phrase) – a Latin phrase meaning “the state of affairs existing before” (or) “the way things were before”.
mobilisation (noun) – in military terminology, mobilisation is the act of assembling and readying troops together for a particular cause (e.g. war).
under way (phrase) – going on, continuing, in progress.
casualty (noun) – victim, fatality, mortality.
put aside (phrasal verb) – disregard/forget, set aside, ignore.
build-up (noun) – development, escalation, expansion.
circumstances (noun) – situation, conditions, state of affairs.
counter-measure (noun) – corrective action; solution, answer, antidote, cure.
summit (noun) – meeting, conference.
resume (verb) – restart, recommence, begin again.
bilateral (adjective) – involving two groups or countries.
foreseeable (adjective) – unsurprising, predictable, expected, anticipated reasonably.
over time (phrase) – if something happens over time, it happens gradually over a long period of time.
balanced (adjective) – level-headed, practical, sensible, realistic.