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- gamble
collapse - a risky act or venture
- money that is risked for possible monetary gain
- play games for money
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" related words >
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- admit of,
- adventitiousness,
- ante,
- ante up,
- back,
- be liable,
- be subjected to,
- bet,
- bet on,
- bid fair to,
- blind bargain,
- borderline case,
- brave,
- break,
- call,
- cast lots,
- casualness,
- challenge,
- chance,
- compromise,
- contingency,
- count on,
- court destruction,
- cover,
- cut lots,
- cut the cards,
- dare,
- defy,
- defy danger,
- destiny,
- double contingency,
- draw lots,
- draw straws,
- encounter danger,
- endanger,
- expose,
- face,
- face up to,
- fade,
- fate,
- flukiness,
- forget the odds,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- gamble on,
- gamble with,
- game,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- guess,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- hazard,
- heedless hap,
- how they fall,
- imperil,
- incur danger,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- jeopard,
- jeopardize,
- jeopardy,
- law of averages,
- lay,
- lay a wager,
- lay down,
- lay open,
- lie under,
- lot,
- luck,
- make a bet,
- make book,
- match coins,
- meet a bet,
- moira,
- open question,
- opportunity,
- parlay,
- pass,
- peril,
- piece of guesswork,
- play,
- play against,
- play at dice,
- play the ponies,
- play with fire,
- plunge,
- predict,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- prognosticate,
- punt,
- put in danger,
- put in jeopardy,
- put on,
- question,
- raffle off,
- random sample,
- rely on,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- run the chance,
- run the risk,
- see,
- serendipity,
- set,
- shoot craps,
- sight-unseen transaction,
- speculate,
- speculation,
- sport,
- stake,
- stand a chance,
- stand fair to,
- stand pat,
- stand to gain,
- stand to lose,
- statistical probability,
- take a chance,
- take chances,
- tempt Providence,
- tempt fortune,
- the breaks,
- theory of probability,
- toss,
- toss-up,
- touch and go,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- undecided issue,
- venture,
- wager,
- whatever comes
- Declaration of Independence,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- autarchy,
- autarky,
- autonomy,
- belief,
- boastfulness,
- certitude,
- cocksureness,
- conceit,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- courage,
- face,
- faith,
- haughtiness,
- home rule,
- hubris,
- independence,
- individualism,
- inner-direction,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- pardonable pride,
- poise,
- pomposity,
- positiveness,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- proudness,
- purse-pride,
- rugged individualism,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-consequence,
- self-containment,
- self-determination,
- self-direction,
- self-esteem,
- self-government,
- self-importance,
- self-respect,
- self-sufficiency,
- settled belief,
- stiff-necked pride,
- stiff-neckedness,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- surety,
- trust,
- vanity
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- assuasive,
- balm,
- balmy,
- balsam,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- brilliantine,
- cathartic,
- cerate,
- chrism,
- cleansing,
- cold cream,
- collyrium,
- cream,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- dulling,
- easing,
- embrocation,
- eye-lotion,
- eyewash,
- eyewater,
- face cream,
- hand lotion,
- inunction,
- inunctum,
- lanolin,
- lenitive,
- liniment,
- loosening,
- lotion,
- lubricant,
- lubricating,
- lubricational,
- lubricative,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- mollifying,
- nard,
- numbing,
- oil,
- ointment,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- pomade,
- pomatum,
- purgative,
- relaxing,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- salve,
- softening,
- soothing,
- soothing syrup,
- spikenard,
- subduing,
- unction,
- unguent,
- unguentum,
- vulnerary
- pica
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- magpies related words >
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- anxiety equivalent,
- ascender,
- back,
- bastard type,
- beard,
- belly,
- bevel,
- black letter,
- body,
- cap,
- capital,
- case,
- counter,
- depraved appetite,
- descender,
- em,
- en,
- face,
- fat-faced type,
- feet,
- font,
- groove,
- italic,
- letter,
- ligature,
- logotype,
- lower case,
- majuscule,
- minuscule,
- neurasthenia,
- nick,
- paresthesia,
- parorexia,
- pi,
- point,
- print,
- roman,
- sans serif,
- script,
- shank,
- shoulder,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- speech abnormality,
- stamp,
- stem,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- upper case
- gaudy
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- a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brummagem,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- declamatory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honky-tonk,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pedantic,
- phony,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- raffish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- spectacular,
- stilted,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tinselly,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- worthless,
- wretched
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- apostasy,
- betterment,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- gradual change,
- improvement,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- overthrow,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- rearrangement,
- reconstitution,
- redesign,
- redisposition,
- redistribution,
- reform,
- reformation,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reordering,
- reorganization,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- total change,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- worsening
- sheathe
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- plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
- enclose with a sheath; "sheathe a sword"
- cover with a protective sheathing; "sheathe her face" related words >
- apparel,
- array,
- attire,
- bedeck,
- bedrape,
- board,
- box,
- brick,
- bundle up,
- case,
- clad,
- clapboard,
- clothe,
- cover,
- crate,
- deck,
- dight,
- drape,
- dress,
- dud,
- embox,
- embrace,
- encapsulate,
- encase,
- enclothe,
- endue,
- enfold,
- enrobe,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- enwrap,
- face,
- garb,
- garment,
- glass,
- glaze,
- habilitate,
- invest,
- jacket,
- lap,
- lath,
- muffle up,
- pack,
- package,
- panel,
- paper,
- plank,
- rag out,
- raiment,
- revet,
- robe,
- shake,
- shingle,
- shroud,
- side,
- skin,
- slate,
- smother,
- stone,
- surround,
- swaddle,
- swathe,
- thatch,
- tile,
- tire,
- veneer,
- wall in,
- wall up,
- wallpaper,
- weatherboard,
- wrap,
- wrap about,
- wrap up
- throaty
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- sounding as if pronounced low in the throat; "a rich throaty voice" related words >
- accented,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- blurred,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- breathy,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- choked,
- choking,
- close,
- coarse,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- cracked,
- croaking,
- croaky,
- dental,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dry,
- dysphonic,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- gruff,
- guttural,
- hard,
- harsh,
- harsh-sounding,
- hawking,
- heavy,
- high,
- hoarse,
- husky,
- inarticulate,
- indistinct,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- lisping,
- low,
- metallic,
- mid,
- mispronounced,
- monophthongal,
- muted,
- muzzy,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- posttonic,
- quavering,
- ragged,
- raucid,
- raucous,
- retroflex,
- rough,
- rounded,
- roupy,
- rude,
- semivowel,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- snuffling,
- soft,
- sonant,
- squawking,
- squawky,
- stertorous,
- stifled,
- stopped,
- strangled,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- tense,
- thick,
- tinny,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- tremulous,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- fakery
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- the act of faking (or the product of faking) related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copying,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- hark back
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- go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" related words >
- break back,
- bring back,
- bring to mind,
- call back,
- call to mind,
- call up,
- change back,
- conjure up,
- cry back,
- cry back to,
- do a flip-flop,
- do an about-face,
- evoke,
- flip-flop,
- go back,
- go back over,
- go back to,
- look back,
- mind,
- recall,
- recall to mind,
- recapture,
- recollect,
- recur to,
- reevoke,
- reflect,
- remember,
- retrace,
- retrospect,
- return to,
- revert to,
- review,
- review in retrospect,
- revive,
- see in retrospect,
- summon up,
- think back,
- think of,
- turn,
- turn about,
- turn around,
- turn back,
- use hindsight
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