peril
B1CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Serious and immediate risk of harm or injury.
By ignoring the warning signs the swimmer courted obvious peril.
Business noun
A specific cause of loss, such as fire, flood or theft, against which a policy provides cover.
Subsidence is an insured peril under the household section but earthquake is expressly excluded.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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