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precipitous

 adjective
     
pre‧cip‧i‧tous
1 very sudden:
a precipitous decline in stock prices
2 dangerously high or steep:
a precipitous path
3 formal happening or done too quickly, and not thought about carefully:
a precipitous marriage
—precipitously adverb
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