Today's list of vocabulary - 0418

peril noun [C or U] FORMAL
1. great danger, or something that is very dangerous:
I never felt that my life was in peril.The journey through the mountains was fraught with peril (= full of dangers).
Teenagers must be warned about the perils of unsafe sex.
2 do sth at your peril to do something that might be very dangerous for you:
We underestimate the destructiveness of war at our peril.

perilous adjective FORMAL
extremely dangerous.

perilously adverb FORMAL

My practice:
Alchol abuse is perilous - alchol is addictive and pepople hardly abstain from it.