truce
TROOSnounMeaning an agreement to stop fighting for a while
Memory hook TRUCE: a TRUE pause, for now. In the middle of their snowball fight, Kai waves a white flag: “Truce! Cocoa break!” For now, the fight is paused: it is a truce.
The two brothers called a truce in their pillow fight so they could eat breakfast.
In context The cats had battled over the sunny windowsill all week, but a truce held at dinnertime: side by side, they ate from their bowls without a single hiss.
Similar ceasefire, pause, lull
Opposite war, fighting, hostilities
From Middle English trewes, the plural of trewe, “a pledge,” a word related to true.