This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
Pronounced: (pruh-CARE-ee-us)
Adjective:
1. not secure; beset with difficulties
2. affording no ease or reassurance
3. fraught with danger
Interesting fact (courtesy Vocabulary.com):
The Latin root of precarious means “obtained by asking or praying.” This fits well as precarious always signals that help is needed desperately.
Examples:
“It’s not unusual for first year agents to find themselves in a precarious financial position while they gain experience.”
“The owner’s deferred maintenance had left the back deck in precarious shape. I had to be careful of rotten boards and exposed nail heads.”
