verge, precipice, cusp, abyss, throes, foundering, stave off, hellbent, jeopardy, dire straits, imploding, tailspin, ruin, midst, tatters, oblivion, scrapheap, back, mire, crippling, eve, ruination, peril, doorstep, teeters, desperate straits, crossroads, forefront, specter, kibosh, shambles, disunion, pinnacle, danger, extinction, breadline, lurch, onus, disarray, into, doom, despair, groundwork, table, edge, reckoning, savior, sundering, asunder, heels, precipitate, razor edge, impends, fore, bandwagon, fringes, toward, trigger, petrified, quicksand, nosedive, annihilation, stage, misery, death knell, headlong, warpath, skids, despond, salvation, lifeline, quagmire, destitution, armageddon, rollercoaster, tenterhooks, towards, perdition, standstill, totters, pedestal, collapse, footing, nose dive, postbellum, rightwards, decimation, agony, irrelevance, nadir, timebomb, blame, meltdown, triumph, chopping block, burner, shoals, presage, pendulum, heartbreak, united, obscurity, steeps, declivity, precipices, steep, cliff, hillside, riverbank, shore, extreme, hills, incline, bluff, declivities, desolation, flanks, headland, plunge

brinkmanship, geezerhood

border, bound, boundary, bounds, limit

threshold