encomium [ en-KOH-mee-uh’ m ]
[noun]
MEANING:
enthusiastic praise or laudation
foist [ foist ]
[transitive verb]
MEANING:
- to insert or introduce fraudulently
- to pass off something fake as something genuine
- to impose without proper justification
contingent [ kuh’ n-Tin-juh’ nt ]
[noun,adjective]
MEANING:
- (adj.) conditional or dependent on something else
- (adj.) accidental or fortuitous
- (adj.) empirical or not necessarily true in the logical sense
- (n.) contingency
- (n.) a quota of delegates or troops
- (n.) a delegation or representative group
primordial [ prahy-MAWR-dee-uh’l ]
[adjective]
MEANING:
- original or constituting a beginning
- formed first or happening first in sequence of time
- elementary or fundamental
graphite [ GRAF-ahyt ]
[noun]
MEANING:
- black lead or plumbago
- a soft native carbon, occurring in dark-gray to black foliated masses, with metallic lustre and greasy feel
- a soft, hexagonally crystallized allotrope of carbon with a metallic lustre and a grey-black shade also called