cusp, brink, hellbent, precipice, throes, midst, bent, jeopardy, eve, impossibility, petrified, hinges, kibosh, danger, death knell, possibility, foregone conclusion, sights, doorstep, reliant, crossroads, teeters, imploding, horizon, unlikelihood, foundering, bandwagon, prerequisite, dire straits, dreaming, warpath, presage, tenterhooks, tatters, scrapheap, stave off, blame, onus, prelude, prospect, pipedream, heels, destine, offing, chopping block, disarray, skids, girding, razor edge, stumbling block, fringes, disintegrating, despite, savior, trouble, focussing, balking, inevitability, dawning, specter, abyss, likelihood, saving grace, stranglehold, emphasis, mirage, livid, knack, chances, warier, ascendence, adept, sine qua non, vanguard, signs, exclamation point, odds, laughingstock, sundering, masterstroke, footing, regrouping, fuming, difficulty, imminence, stumbling, shambles, fait accompli, favor, hairsbreadth, doom, path, rejoicing, renascent, precursor, epitome, prowl, plateau, vested interest, bucking, concentrate, strides, corner, verges, reaches, riverbank, shore, roadside, aisle, declivity, headland, hillside, outskirts, shores, slopes, embankment, steeps, cliff, extreme, gully, incline, pallet, unsalaried, accrediting, across, advisory, alighting, antipoverty, appeal, appointed, appointive, asbestos, auditorial, backgammon, baffle, bagatelle, baize, balsa, barge, batter, beaten

bauble, trench

approach, border on, drowse, elliptical, verger

border, bound, boundary, bounds, edge, limit, staff

scepter, sceptre, threshold, wand