Perilous
adj.
危险的
Perilous是Peril（n.危险) 形容词，一个高逼格的dangerous。在做形容词的时候，Perilous和dangerous常常可以同意互换。比如因为这个新冠疫情，很多国家的经济发展都有不同程度的停滞，their economies are now in a perilous / dangerous state。但是perilous一般只形容情况和事情，不太会说某个人很perilous，我们说he/she is a dangerous person。
真题时间
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
本期真题答案将在明天公布。
上期真题解答
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
上期单词洗脑大法传送门：每日GRE单词洗脑大法：Teem不用“People Mountain People Sea”
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