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nilous
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adj. anxious to imagine how many times you must've barely avoided catastrophe—the morning you missed the bus that later went on to crash, the day you stayed onshore when it was a bit too rough out there—which makes it feel like something of a fluke that you've survived this long, as if you're on an unbroken streak of coin flips, heads after heads after heads, wondering when your luck is going to run out.
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Old English nigh, almost + nihil, nothing. Pronounced "nahy-lis."