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Chance

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Amount 76% connected

To go up; to ascend.

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Assay 76% connected

Trial; attempt; essay.

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Attempt 76% connected

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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Danger 76% connected

Authority; jurisdiction; control.

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Encounter 76% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

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Essay 76% connected

An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

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Hap 76% connected

To clothe; to wrap.

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Happen 76% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Occur 76% connected

To meet; to clash.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Peril 76% connected

Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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Phenomenon 76% connected

An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light,…

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Possibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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Potency 76% connected

The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influenc…

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Potential 76% connected

Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.

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Potentiality 76% connected

The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.

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Quantity 76% connected

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

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Risk 76% connected

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

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Seek 76% connected

Sick.

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Try 76% connected

To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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Audience 76% connected

The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Day 76% connected

The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunsh…

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Hearing 76% connected

of Hear

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Mischance 76% connected

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.

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Mishap 76% connected

Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.

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Occasion 76% connected

A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Risk 76% connected

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

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Room 76% connected

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Street 76% connected

Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Manner of action 1

Happen 76% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Derivationally related 16

Luck 74% connected

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Luck 74% connected

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Opportune 74% connected

Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely.

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Opportune 74% connected

Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely.

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Opportunity 74% connected

Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.

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Opportunity 74% connected

Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.

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Probable 74% connected

Capable of being proved.

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Probable 74% connected

Capable of being proved.

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Prospect 74% connected

That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

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Prospect 74% connected

That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

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Venture 74% connected

An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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Venture 74% connected

An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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Synonym 14

Adventure 92% connected

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

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Bump 92% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Casual 92% connected

Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.

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Encounter 92% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Find 92% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fortune 92% connected

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determinin…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gamble 92% connected

To play or game for money or other stake.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Happen 92% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hazard 92% connected

A game of chance played with dice.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Luck 92% connected

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Opportunity 92% connected

Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Probability 92% connected

The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prospect 92% connected

That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Risk 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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