Important Vocabulary From the Hindu Other Editorials 95

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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