tempt+fortune
11chance — I n 1. fortuity, serendipity, happenstance, mere chance, happy chance; luck, Lady Luck, fortune or Fortune, Lady or Dame Fortune, wheels of fortune or chance, heads or tails, roll, Inf. cast or toss or throw of the dice; accident, coincidence,… …
12venture — Synonyms and related words: accept, advance, adventure, affair, agiotage, approach, arbitrage, assay, assume, attack, attempt, banter, be a man, be caught short, be short, beard, belong, bet, brave, broach, bucket, bucketshop, buckle to, business …
13gamble on — Synonyms and related words: aller sans dire, bank on, be axiomatic, be certain, be confident, bet on, calculate on, chance, chance it, count on, depend on, doubt not, feel sure, go without saying, have no doubt, hazard, just know, know, know for… …
14wager — Synonyms and related words: adventure, ante, ante up, back, bet, bet on, blind bargain, book, borderline case, call, chance, chance it, chunk, contingency, cover, double contingency, fade, gamble, gamble on, game, guess, handbook, hazard, lay,… …
15bet — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. wager, stake, gamble, play, lay odds. See chance, improbity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. gamble, wager, venture, pot, ante, hazard, tossup, stake, speculation, betting, play, raffle, odds, uncertainty,… …
16experiment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Trial Nouns 1. experiment, experimentation, essay, attempt; venture, adventure, speculation; trial, probation, proof (see demonstration); [acid or litmus] test, check, tryout, assay, ordeal; empiricism,… …
17take one's chance — Venture, tempt fortune, try one s fortune, try one s luck …
18In questa reggia — ( In this palace ) is an aria from Giacomo Puccini s opera Turandot set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. The text is based on Friedrich Schiller s adaptation of the play Turandot by Carlo Gozzi. The aria takes place… …
19venture — I. n. 1. Hazard, risk, danger, jeopardy, peril. 2. Chance, hap, luck, contingency. 3. Stake, adventure, risk. 4. Speculation. II. v. a. Hazard, risk, jeopardize, jeopard, expose to hazard. III. v. n. 1 …
20endeavor — v 1. strive, struggle, labor, try hard, do one s best, set at [s.t.] with a will; try, make an effort, take pains, bestir oneself; attempt, tackle, take on, try one s hand, Inf. have a go, Inf. take a crack or whack or shot at; essay, undertake,… …
