Risk vocabulary

Words for uncertainty, exposure, controls and potential harm.

Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

A game of chance played with dice.

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or…

Appearance; show; sign; expression.

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; a…

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.