Perilous
adj.
危險的
Perilous是Peril（n.危險) 形容詞，一個高逼格的dangerous。在做形容詞的時候，Perilous和dangerous常常可以同意互換。比如因為這個新冠疫情，很多國家的經濟發展都有不同程度的停滯，their economies are now in a perilous / dangerous state。但是perilous一般只形容情況和事情，不太會說某個人很perilous，我們說he/she is a dangerous person。
真題時間
If giant X-ray flares churn circumstellar disks enough to keep newborn planets, such as Earth once was, from spiraling into their suns, it would be an ironic twist on our conception of X-ray flares as _____.
A. dangerous
B. predictable
C. ancient
D. ephemeral
E. perilous
F. foreseeable
本期真題答案將在明天公佈。
上期真題解答
In contrast to such sparsely populated terrestrial habitats as desert and tundra, the oceans _A_ with a seemingly endless array of creatures.
A. teem
B. flow
C. evolve
D. roil
E. ebb
上期單詞洗腦大法傳送門：每日GRE單詞洗腦大法：Teem不用“People Mountain People Sea”
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