# Safety & Risk

**Type:** Topic
**Words:** 39

## About

Danger, protection, accidents, emergencies, and uncertainty.

## Words by Level

### A1
- drive off — to force a person, animal, or unwanted influence to go away
- head off — to prevent a problem or unwanted event from happening
- keep off — to avoid entering or walking on a place
- run over — to hit someone or something with a vehicle and pass over them
- stay off — to avoid entering, standing on, or walking onto a place

### A2
- safe — Not in danger and not likely to be harmed.; frequency rank 560
- protect — To keep someone or something safe from harm or danger.; frequency rank 813
- dangerous — Likely to cause harm, injury, or death.; frequency rank 822
- accident — A crash involving a vehicle that causes damage or injury.; frequency rank 881
- danger — The possibility of being harmed or killed.; frequency rank 1283
- emergency — A sudden, dangerous situation that needs immediate action; frequency rank 1446
- adventure — An exciting or unusual experience, often involving some risk or danger.; frequency rank 3313
- mark off — to show the boundaries of an area or separate it from the surrounding space

### B1
- risk — The chance that something bad might happen.; frequency rank 1158
- damage — Physical harm that makes something less useful or valuable.; frequency rank 1791
- safety — The state of being safe and not in danger.; frequency rank 1803
- warning — Something said or written that tells you about a possible danger or problem.; frequency rank 1945
- threat — A statement that you will hurt or punish someone, especially if they do not do what you want.; frequency rank 2129
- protection — The act of keeping someone or something safe from harm.; frequency rank 2216
- secure — safe and protected from danger or harm; frequency rank 2625
- crisis — A time of serious danger, difficulty, or trouble.; frequency rank 2936
- survival — The fact of staying alive, especially through danger or hardship.; frequency rank 3811
- caution — Great care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.; frequency rank 7295
- hazard — Something that is dangerous or could cause harm.; frequency rank 9627
- safeguard — Something done to protect against harm, danger, or loss.; frequency rank 18846
- scare off — to make someone withdraw or stay away by frightening or discouraging them
- tamper with — to interfere with or alter something without proper authority or care
- ward off — to prevent something harmful or unwanted from reaching or affecting someone

### B2
- reckon with — to take account of something important or deal with its effects
- seal off — to close an area or opening so that nothing can pass through

### C1
- ordeal — A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.; frequency rank 11562
- safekeeping — protection or secure custody that keeps someone or something from harm, loss, or theft; frequency rank 22724

### C2
- menace — Something or someone that is a danger or threat.; frequency rank 11037
- crossbones — two bones depicted or placed diagonally across one another, especially beneath a skull as a warning of danger or death; frequency rank 56126
- pitfall — A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.; frequency rank 76664
- cordon off — to prevent entry to an area by surrounding it with a rope or similar barrier
- stave off — to prevent or delay something harmful or unwanted

### C2+
- jeopardy — danger of loss, harm, or failure; legal risk of conviction
- fend off — to protect oneself by keeping an attacker or threat away