What's the difference between lethargic and precarious?

Lethargic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Lethargical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neurological examination revealed a lethargic man with good orientation to three spheres.
  • (2) These pigs also seemed more lethargic than controls and appeared sedated.
  • (3) On the other hand, the patient was noticed lethargic and showed parkinsonism i.e., rest tremor, cog-wheel rigidity, and hypokinesia.
  • (4) Physically, the patient appeared lethargic, and breathing sounds revealed diffuse rales and wheezing.
  • (5) Only miracidia classified as "active" or "slow" were capable of penetration, a capacity they retained for about 17 hours at 19 degrees C. Miracidia that were "lethargic" as a result of low temperature, old age or ultra-violet radiation lost their infective capacity.
  • (6) The colchicine-treated rats were lethargic and hypothermic as compared to controls.
  • (7) For the most part, however, this was a night when some familiar old failings could be detected in terms of England looking lethargic in possession.
  • (8) "People are now lethargic and listless because of starvation.
  • (9) Considered to be intoxicated from the acute effects of sniffing toluene or methylene chloride, the patient remained lethargic and ataxic despite removal from exposure and administration of supplemental oxygen.
  • (10) Upon presentation to the ED approximately 2.5 hr post-ingestion, the child was very lethargic and respirations were depressed.
  • (11) The child remained lethargic for several hours but otherwise had a normal neurological examination.
  • (12) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
  • (13) A comfortable win was secured early here with Eddie Howe’s team, rightly lauded for their own achievements this season and previously unbeaten away this calendar year, made to look uncharacteristically timid, even lethargic at times, as Spurs swarmed all over them.
  • (14) Case 1: A 48-year-old woman, who complained of severe headache and vomiting on Feb. 10th, 1972, gradually became lethargic.
  • (15) Infected dogs were anorectic and lethargic and developed cutaneous lesions characteristic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, including petechia, ecchymosis, edema, and necrosis.
  • (16) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
  • (17) Ataxia was not prominent in animals affected with transmissible mink encephalopathy; these animals gradually became more and more lethargic.
  • (18) On this day, though, the atmosphere became increasingly lethargic as the game wound down and Chelsea went out of the cup.
  • (19) This was one of their most convincing performances of the season, although it must be said that an uncharacteristically lethargic Everton contributed to their own downfall.
  • (20) These animals became lethargic, slouched and developed dyspnoea which became progressively more severe during the course of the study.

Precarious


Definition:

  • (a.) Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges.
  • (a.) Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This case demonstrates that the manifestations may be delayed and that urgent surgical intervention may be lifesaving despite the precarious status of these patients.
  • (2) Enlargement to include poorer states such as Armenia, Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan would make the balance of the EEU even more precarious.
  • (3) Matthew Taylor was appointed by Theresa May last October to review employment practices in the light of concerns about the precarious nature of work, particularly in the gig economy.
  • (4) The diagnosis has usually been made only at autopsy, and early surgical intervention has often been withheld because of the patient's precarious hematological status.
  • (5) Rather than experiencing a slowdown in its frenetic building sector, however, Kabul is increasingly overrun with precarious apartment blocks.
  • (6) One suggestion is to abandon the scheme in London and south-east England but continue it in the north and Midlands, where market conditions are less precarious.
  • (7) What’s left for such workers is the same as their blue-collar counterparts: lower wages, precarious work and a lot of borrowing.
  • (8) After more than a quarter of a century of camping out, the house, with its seven flights of stairs (a trial to Lessing in her final years), seemed almost to be supported by a precarious interior scaffolding of piles of books and shelves.
  • (9) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
  • (10) But I think that can be repaired.” Although Senate Republican leaders have been more willing to rally behind Trump, their members find themselves in a decidedly precarious position.
  • (11) The financial markets are keenly aware of Britain's precarious position.
  • (12) Not infrequently the only unilateral care overlooks important aspects, which are precarious for the course of the disease.
  • (13) The predilection of rectal stricture and its proposed precursor, salmonella ulcerative proctitis, for the middle third of the rectum was attributed to a normally precarious arterial supply which renders the rectum unusually susceptible to ischemic injury and decreases its reparative capacity.
  • (14) Despite public homage to the knowledge economy, this new regime seems designed to make the careers of the next generation of academics as precarious and unrewarding as possible.
  • (15) The precarious position of small schools is due to the loss of the local funding formula, and with it local democratic control.
  • (16) Buses drop workers on the roads and they make the precarious walk through the dark to their homes.
  • (17) When compared with classification by number of diseased vessels and by arteriographic score of Friesinger, the nonprecarious cases had better prognoses than the precarious.
  • (18) When people say it doesn’t matter who you vote for, in this election, in this seat, in this city, it really will.” Becca, who has spent the past two years in poorly paid and precarious part-time jobs, is one of 12 people recruited for the last of five focus groups organised by qualitative polling firm BritainThinks, working in partnership with the Guardian, to examine five key battleground seats and the larger political themes that will help decide the election.
  • (19) The AIDS situation highlights the precarious balance between individual rights and the public welfare, patients' rights, and the rights of nurses and their professional obligations.
  • (20) According to new research from the University of Exeter, women at the top of the ladder are being promoted into risky and precarious leadership positions where the chance of failure is high.