Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF -01th September 2018

encomium [ en-KOH-mee-uh’ m ]

[noun]

MEANING:

enthusiastic praise or laudation

foist [ foist ]

[transitive verb]

MEANING:

1. to insert or introduce fraudulently
2. to pass off something fake as something genuine
3. to impose without proper justification

contingent [ kuh’ n-Tin-juh’ nt ]

[noun,adjective]

MEANING:

1. (adj.) conditional or dependent on something else
2. (adj.) accidental or fortuitous
3. (adj.) empirical or not necessarily true in the logical sense
4. (n.) contingency
5. (n.) a quota of delegates or troops
6. (n.) a delegation or representative group

primordial [ prahy-MAWR-dee-uh’l ]

[adjective]

MEANING:

1. original or constituting a beginning
2. formed first or happening first in sequence of time
3. elementary or fundamental

graphite [ GRAF-ahyt ]

[noun]

MEANING:

1. black lead or plumbago
2. a soft native carbon, occurring in dark-gray to black foliated masses, with metallic lustre and greasy feel
3. a soft, hexagonally crystallized allotrope of carbon with a metallic lustre and a grey-black shade also called

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