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Synonyms for perilous

The synonym for perilous recorded in this bank is precarious, in the sense "fraught with danger". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for perilous

precariousadjective, in the sense "fraught with danger"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and perilous carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineActions

fraught with danger

A perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

precarious

Same sentence, swapped: A precarious voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

menacing
alarming
unhealthy

Where perilous turns up in the game

perilous is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play perilous

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so perilous reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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