Contingent
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; (military) a quota of troops.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Possible or liable, but not certain to occur; incidental; casual. (with upon) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown. Dependent on something that may or may not occur. Not logically necessarily true or false.
Example sentence: In the gigantic and worthwhile struggle for achieving the country's prosperity and people's happiness, our young people have been educated in a revolutionary way and trained spiritually and physically, and have developed into a large, matchless contingent forming a thousand-fold, tens-of-thousand-fold fortress around the Party.
Possible
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Able but not certain to happen; not impossible.Capable of being done or achieved; feasible.Being considered, e.g. for a position.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A possible oneA possible choice, notably someone being considered for a position.A particular event that may happen.
Example sentence: All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.