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Precarious
Today’s word is Scrutinize.
What it means
- adjective
Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.
- adjective
Depending on the intention of another.
- adjective
Relating to incipient caries.
Where it comes from
Precarious comes from Latin precarius, obtained by prayer or favor, from prex, a prayer. What depends on someone else's favor is not secure. That sense became the modern one: unsafe, unstable.
In a sentence
- Their situation is precarious.by CM, Tatoeba
- Tom is in a precarious position.by Hybrid, Tatoeba
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