每日GRE单词洗脑大法：“Perilous” 危险不止“Dangerous”

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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