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Hazard

A game of chance played with dice.

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Manner of action 9

Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Forebode 76% connected

To foretell.

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Foretell 76% connected

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

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Predict 76% connected

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

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Prognosticate 76% connected

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Surmise 76% connected

A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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Suspect 76% connected

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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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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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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Obstacle 76% connected

That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.

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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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Risk 76% connected

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

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Seek 76% connected

Sick.

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Speculate 76% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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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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Narrower term 4

Bunker 76% connected

A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.

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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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Trap 76% connected

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

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Jeopardy 74% connected

Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.

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Jeopardy 74% connected

Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.

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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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Chance 92% connected

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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Endangerment 92% connected

Hazard; peril.

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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…

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Gamble 92% connected

To play or game for money or other stake.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Guess 92% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Jeopardize 92% connected

To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.

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Jeopardy 92% connected

Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.

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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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Peril 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pretend 92% connected

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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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Stake 92% connected

A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Venture 92% 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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Risk 84% connected

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

risk vocabulary 55% interchangeable

A source of potential harm.

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