VOCABULARY UNIT 11 ENGLISH III
1. Prevalent (adj) Widely existing Frequent
2. Stagnant (adj) Not flowing or moving
3. Precarious (adj) Uncertain; insecure; risky
4. Avarice (n) Greed
5. Superfluous (adj) More than is needed or wanted Useless
6. Usurp (v) To seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right
7. Endeavor (v) To attempt; try
8. Mercenary (n) A professional soldier hired to serve in another country
9. Virtue (n) Moral excellence; goodness; righteousness
10. Trifle (n) An article or thing of very little value
11. Inanimate (adj) lifeless
12. Obscurity (n) darkness; dimness; indistinctness uncertainty of meaning or expression; ambiguity Unknown
13. Iniquity (n) Wickedness
14. Ostentatious (adj) Deliberately attracting notice
15. Plausibility (n) Believability