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| Main Entry: |
come off
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | transpire |
| Synonyms: | befall, betide, break, chance, click, come about, develop, go, go off, go over, hap, happen, occur, pan out, prove out, succeed, take place |
| Antonyms: | not happen |
| Main Entry: | contingency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance happening; possibility |
| Synonyms: | accident, break, chance, crisis, crossroads, emergency, event, eventuality, exigency, fortuity, happening, if it's cool, incident, juncture, likelihood, occasion, odds, opportunity, pass, pinch, predicament, probability, strait, turning point, uncertainty, zero hour |
| Antonyms: | certainty, definiteness, reality, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | contingent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conditional; possible |
| Synonyms: | accidental, casual, chance, controlled by, dependent, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, likely, odd, probable, probably, random, subject to, unanticipated, uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unpredictable |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, real, sure, truthful, unconditional |
| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spare time |
| Synonyms: | chance, freedom, hour, leisure, liberty, occasion, one's own sweet time, opportunity, place, preference, spare moment, suitable time, whenever |
| Main Entry: | credibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believeableness |
| Synonyms: | believability, chance, integrity, likelihood, plausibility, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, soundness, tenability, trustworthiness, validity |
| Notes: | something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness |
| Antonyms: | implausibility, improbability, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distribution of playing cards |
| Synonyms: | appointment, chance, cut and shuffle, fresh start, game, hand, opportunity, round |
| Main Entry: | desultory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random |
| Synonyms: | aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard, orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic, without purpose |
| Main Entry: | develop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | begin; occur |
| Synonyms: | acquire, arise, befall, betide, break, break out, breed, chance, come about, come off, commence, contract, ensue, establish, follow, form, generate, go, happen, invest, originate, pick up, result, start, transpire |
| Antonyms: | cease, discontinue, end, halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | endanger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put in jeopardy |
| Synonyms: | be careless, chance, chance it, expose, hazard, imperil, lay on the line, lay open, leave defenseless, leave in the middle, make liable, menace, peril, play into one's hands, put at risk, put in danger, put on the spot, risk, stick one's neck out, subject to loss, threaten, venture |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, comfort, help, save, take care |
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