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perfidious [pəˈfıdıəs] ADJ form

▶ perfidiously ADV
▶ perfidiousness N

pernicious [pəˈnıʃəs] ADJ

querulous [ˈkwerjʊləs] ADJ

▶ querulously ADV
▶ querulousness N

nebulous ADJ

2. nebulous:

▶ nebulously ADV

populous [ˈpɒpjʊləs] ADJ

▶ populously ADV
▶ populousness N

II . peril [ˈperıl] VB trans

peril [ˈperıl]

▶ perilous [ˈperıləs] ADJ
▶ perilously ADV

scurrilous [ˈskʌrıləs] ADJ

meticulous [mıˈtıkjʊləs] ADJ

▶ meticulosity [mı­ˌtık­jʊ­ˈlɒ­sə­tı] N
▶ meticulously ADV

pertinacious [ˌpɜːtıˈneıʃəs] ADJ

▶ pertinaciously ADV
▶ pertinacity [ˌpɜːtıˈnæsətı] N

periscope [ˈperıskəʊp] N

credulous [ˈkredjʊləs] ADJ

▶ credulously ADV
▶ credulousness N

marvellous, marvelous Am [ˈmɑːvələs] ADJ

tremulous [ˈtremjʊləs] ADJ

perspicacious [ˌpɜːspıˈkeıʃəs] ADJ

miraculous [mıˈrækjuːləs] ADJ

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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They engaged in the most perilous adventure that was, perhaps, ever undertaken.
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For example, he bribes a priest into tricking fifty pilgrims into a futile pilgrimage, to guard his crossing of a perilous desert - only fifteen survive.
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Now, he must risk everything to take down the organization and reclaim the life he lost when he took on this perilous assignment.
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At the time, it stood in the perilous neighborhoods outside the city walls.
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She had been typecast, he warned her, and her career was in perilous straits.
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There, their search for a legendary ghost leads them into a perilous plot and a quest for phantom treasure.
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Humanity entering outer fringes most perilous stage its existence.
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The book starts out with the three heroes' perilous journey through the jungle.
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The character may briefly escape a perilous situation in the real world by entering the dream world, and use this to travel about.
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The battalion's casualty rate for this perilous mission was greater than 50 percent.
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