| Difficult Word/ Phrase | Contextual Sense |
| Contingency | a future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty |
| Militia | a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency |
| Personnel | people employed in an organization or engaged in an organized undertaking such as military service |
| Naught | nothing |
| Pull up stakes | move or go to live elsewhere |
| Emulate | match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation |
| Regime | a government, especially an authoritarian one |
| Brutal | extremely cruel or harsh |
| Fructify | make (something) fruitful or productive |
| Sect | a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong |
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