GRE vocabulary
Détente
a cooling off of hostility or a relaxation of strained political relations
Example
"Decades of border skirmishes were finally checked by a fragile détente negotiated by neutral envoys."
Etymology
From French détente, literally 'a slackening or loosening', from détendre ('to unbend').
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