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1. precariously
 2. dangerously
3. hazardously
4. riskily
5. apprehensively
6. suspensefully
7. worrisomely
8. abashedly
9. agonisingly
10. alarmedly
 11. alarmingly
12. annoyingly
13. anxiously
14. apprehensive
15. beseechingly
16. catastrophically
17. chasteningly
18. concern
19. concerned
20. concernment
 21. crashingly
22. dauntingly
23. delusively
24. desperately
25. devastatingly
26. disconcertedly
27. distraughtly
28. distressedly
29. distressfully
30. distressingly
 31. distrustfully
32. dolorously
33. embarrassedly
34. exasperatedly
35. fatefully
36. fatiguingly
37. forebodingly
38. frustratedly

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