The tall, forbidding palace perched atop the very edge of the mountainous cliff, overlooking so precariously the vast, black body of water below that it appeared almost ready to plummet into the latter's dark depths. [Warcraft War of the Ancients #1]
Does the word "precariously" add any meaning to "the vast" for "The Forbidding palace"?
Answer
The word "precariously" is adding to the word "overlooking" in the combined phrase "overlooking so precariously", which then links to the later part of the sentence making the meaning "overlooking so precariously ... that it appeared almost ready to plummet". The use of the phrase "the latter" is used to indicate the twist in the word ordering. "the latter" means "the thing I just wrote earlier", which is the "vast black body of water".
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