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  • 21adventure — I. n. 1. Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, venture, stake, experiment, trial. 2. Hazardous enterprise, bold undertaking. 3. Event, incident, occurrence, transaction, passage, crisis, contingency. 4. (Com.) Speculation. II. v. a. Hazard …

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  • 22endanger — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. imperil. See danger. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. imperil, jeopardize, expose to danger, risk, hazard, leave defenseless, leave unprotected, put in danger, put in jeopardy, threaten, subject to loss,… …

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  • 23danger — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Exposure to injury Nouns 1. danger, peril, jeopardy, risk, hazard, threat, adventure, insecurity, precariousness, slipperiness; Russian roulette (see chance). 2. (vulnerability to danger) exposure,… …

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  • 24risque — [ risk ] n. m. • 1663; n. f. 1578; a. it. risco; bas lat. risicus ou riscus, p. ê. du lat. resecare « couper », ou du gr. rhizikon (« risque », en gr. mod.), de rhiza « racine » 1 ♦ Danger éventuel plus ou moins prévisible. ⇒ danger, hasard,… …

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  • 25risqué — risque [ risk ] n. m. • 1663; n. f. 1578; a. it. risco; bas lat. risicus ou riscus, p. ê. du lat. resecare « couper », ou du gr. rhizikon (« risque », en gr. mod.), de rhiza « racine » 1 ♦ Danger éventuel plus ou moins prévisible. ⇒ danger,… …

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  • 26hazard — haz·ard / ha zərd/ n: a condition that tends to create or increase the possibility of loss used esp. in insurance law Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. hazard …

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  • 27imperil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. endanger, jeopardize, risk. See danger. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. jeopardize, expose, hazard; see endanger , risk . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. endanger, jeopardize, hazard, *play with fire,… …

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  • 28jeopardize — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. imperil, expose, venture; see endanger , risk . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. endanger, imperil, hazard, risk, put in jeopardy, chance, threaten, tempt fate. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To subject to danger or… …

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  • 29hazard — n 1 accident, *chance, fortune, luck, hap 2 jeopardy, peril, *danger, risk Analogous words: possibility, probability, likelihood (see corresponding adjectives at PROBABLE): contingency, exigency, emergency (see JUNCTURE) hazard vb …

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  • 30hazard — [haz′ərd] n. [ME < OFr hasard, game of dice, adventure < ? Ar az zahr, for Egypt colloq. Ar al zahr, dice] 1. an early game of chance played with dice, from which craps is derived 2. chance, or a chance occurrence 3. a) risk; peril; danger; …

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