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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance taken |
| Synonyms: | accident, contingency, danger, exposedness, exposure, flyer, fortuity, fortune, gamble, hazard, header, jeopardy, liability, liableness, luck, openness, opportunity, peril, plunge, possibility, prospect, shot in the dark, speculation, stab*, uncertainty, venture, wager |
| Antonyms: | certainty, safety, sureness, surety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | bulkiness, chanciness, cumbersomeness, danger, hazardousness, inconvenience, peril, perilousness, risk, troublesomeness, uncomfortableness, unhandiness, unmanageability, unwieldiness |
| Antonyms: | convenience, ease, easiness, straightforwardness |
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | game of chance; money gambled |
| Synonyms: | action, ante, betting, chance, down on, hazard, long shot, lot, lottery, odds, odds on, parlay, play, pledge, plunge, pot, raffle, random shot, risk, shot, shot in the dark, speculation, stake, sweepstakes, uncertainty, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gamble |
| Synonyms: | ante, buy in on, chance, dice, game, hazard, lay down, lay odds, play against, play for, play the ponies, pledge, pony up, put, put money on, risk, set, speculate, tempt fortune, toss up, trust, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a chance |
| Synonyms: | be victim, get hooked, nibble, risk, volunteer |
| Antonyms: | be careful |
| Main Entry: | brave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure bad situation |
| Synonyms: | bear, beard, challenge, confront, court, dare, defy, face, face off, fly in the face of, go through, outdare, risk, stand up to, suffer, support, take on, venture, withstand |
| Antonyms: | break down, capitulate, complain, dodge, fear, give up, hide, run away, skip |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, luck |
| 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, hazard, heads or tails, hit*, in the cards, kismet, lot, lottery, luck out, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peradventure, peril, providence, risk, stroke of luck, throw of the dice, toss-up, turn of the cards, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
| Antonyms: | aim, design, plan, scheme |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compromise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put in jeopardy |
| Synonyms: | blight, cop out, discredit, dishonor, embarrass, endanger, explode, expose, give in, hazard, imperil, implicate, jeopardize, mar, menace, peril, prejudice, put under suspicion, risk, ruin, sell out, spoil, weaken |
| Antonyms: | guard, protect, save |
| Main Entry: | crapshoot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | big chance |
| Synonyms: | iffy proposition, risk, risky business, shot in the dark, spin of the roulette wheel |
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