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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bet money or something else in a gamble |
| Synonyms: | adventure, chance, gamble, game, hazard, hedge, hustle, lay, lay a wager, parlay, play, play the market, pledge, plunge, put on the line, put on*, put up, risk, set*, shoot the works, shoot*, spec, speculate, stake, take action, venture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | yarn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, often long and made-up |
| Synonyms: | adventure, alibi, anecdote, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, line, narrative, potboiler, prose, sea story, song and dance, song*, string, tale, tall story, tall tale |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, even chance, fluke, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, haphazard, happenchance, happening, happenstance, haza |
| Main Entry: | happenchance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, even chance, fluke, fortuity, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, hap, haphazard, happening, happenstance, hazard, heads or tails, hit |
| Main Entry: | masterstroke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feat |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, action, adventure, attainment, conquest, consummation, coup, deed, effort, enterprise, execution, exploit, gest, performance, stunt, tour de force, triumph, venture, victory |
| Main Entry: | autobiography |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written account of one's own life |
| Synonyms: | adventures, bio, biography, confession, diary, experience, journal, letter, letters, life, life story, memoir, personal history, reminiscences, self-portrayal |
| Main Entry: | biography |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of person's life |
| Synonyms: | adventures, autobiography, bio, biog, close-up, confessions, diary, experiences, journal, letters, life, life history, life story, memoir, personal account, personal anecdote, personal narrative, personal record, picture, profile, résumé, saga, sketch, vita |
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| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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afflated, agacant, agonizing, appetizing, astir, boiling, boisterous, burning, chafing, clamorous, delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, demonstrative, distracted, ebullient, effervescent, electric, entheal, enthusiastic, estuous, excitable, excited, exciting, fanatical, febrile, fervid, feverish, fidgety, fidgin, fiery, fisselig, flaming, flushed, foaming, fuming, furious, fussy, glowing, gomphipothic, haggard, hasty, hot, hurried, hurry, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, imposing, impulsive, inextinguishable, intolerant, irrepressible, irritable, kedge, lost, mad, madcap, magazinish, mercurial, mettlesome, moody, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, piquant, provocative, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, restless, rouncy, seething, sensational, simmering, sirenic, skittish, sparkling, spicy, stanchless, startlish, swelling, tantalizing, telling, tempestuous, thrilling, tumultuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unquiet, unroarious, up, vehement, violent, volcanic, warm, wild
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| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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