Synonyms of the word

hazard

• n. (historical) A type of game played with dice.
• n. Chance.
• n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
• n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
• n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
• n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing…
• n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
• v. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
• v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

adventure

• n. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are…
• n. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
• n. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
• n. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
• n. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
• n. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
• n. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
• n. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
• v. (transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
• v. (transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
• v. (intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.

assay

• n. Trial, attempt, essay.
• n. Examination and determination; test.
• n. The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
• n. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
• n. Tested purity or value.
• n. The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially,…
• n. The alloy or metal to be assayed.
• v. (transitive) To attempt (something).
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To try, attempt (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.
• v. To affect.
• v. To try tasting, as food or drink.

attempt

• v. To try.
• v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
• v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
• v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
• n. The action of trying at something.
• n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

chance

• n. (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
• n. (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
• n. (countable) The probability of something happening.
• n. (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
• v. To try or risk.
• v. To discover something by chance.
• v. (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
• adj. (rare) Happening by chance, casual.

danger

• n. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
• n. (obsolete) Liability.
• n. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
• n. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
• n. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
• n. Exposure to liable harm.
• n. An instance or cause of liable harm.
• n. Mischief.
• n. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal. (usually used in the phrase "at danger").
• v. (obsolete) To claim liability.
• v. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
• v. (obsolete) To run the risk.

endangerment

• n. The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
• n. (law) The exposure of someone, especially a child, to danger or harm.

essay

• n. A written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject.
• n. (obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.
• n. (now rare) An attempt.
• v. (dated, transitive) To try.
• v. (intransitive) To move forth, as into battle.

fortune

• n. Destiny, especially favorable.
• n. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
• n. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
• n. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
• n. Good luck.
• n. One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
• n. A large amount of money.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen, take place.
• v. To provide with a fortune.
• v. To presage; to tell the fortune of.

gamble

• n. A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain.
• n. A risky venture.
• v. To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome.
• v. To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain.
• v. (transitive) To risk (something) for potential gain.
• v. To interact with equipment at a casino.

guess

• v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
• v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

jeopardize

• v. (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

jeopardy

• n. Danger of loss, harm, or failure.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To jeopardize; to endanger.

luck

• n. Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one.
• n. A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
• n. success.
• v. (intransitive) To succeed by chance.
• v. (intransitive) To rely on luck.
• v. (transitive) To carry out relying on luck.

obstacle

• n. Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress.

peril

• n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
• n. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
• n. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

phenomenon

• n. A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
• n. (extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science).
• n. (metonymy) A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2).
• n. Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
• n. A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
• n. A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
• n. (philosophy, chiefly Kantian idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and…

pretend

• v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
• v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
• v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
• v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

risk

• n. A possible, usually negative, outcome, e.g., a danger.
• n. The likelihood of a negative outcome.
• n. (Formal use in business, engineering, etc.) The potential (conventionally negative) effect of an event,…
• v. (transitive) To incur risk (of something).
• v. (transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.
• v. (transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).

seek

• v. (transitive) To try to find, to look for, to search.
• v. (transitive) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
• v. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
• v. (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

speculate

• v. (intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
• v. (intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
• v. (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or…

stake

• n. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven…
• n. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer,…
• n. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned.
• n. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
• n. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
• n. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths,…
• n. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical…
• v. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
• v. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
• v. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business…

try

• v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
• v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
• v. To test, to work out.
• v. To experiment, to strive.
• v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
• v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
• v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
• n. An attempt.
• n. An act of tasting or sampling.
• n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
• n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
• adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

venture

• n. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
• n. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
• n. The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
• v. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
• v. (transitive) To risk or offer.
• v. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on.
• v. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
• v. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
• v. (transitive) To say something.