Monday, February 20, 2017

PRECARIOUS

WORD: PRECARIOUS

MEANING:
1. Dangerously lacking in security or stability: a precarious posture; precarious footing on the ladder.
2. Subject to chance or unknown conditions: "His kingdom was still precarious; the Danes far from subdued" (Christopher Brooke).
3. Based on uncertain, unwarranted, or unproved premises: a precarious solution to a difficult problem.
4. Archaic Dependent on the will or favor of another.
5. uncertain, risky, dangerous

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The precarious life of an undersea diver

PRONOUNCE:
pre·car·i·ous - प्रिकेरीअस / प्रीकेरीअस

LINK: PRECARIOUS

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