Alert
Alert verb - To give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk.
Usage example: alerted us to the possibility that the roads would be flooded and we might have to take a detour
Risk
Risk verb - To take a chance on.
How words are described
| good | good alert | good risk |
| high | high alert | high risk |
| low | low alert | low risk |
| special | special alert | special risk |
| Other adjectives: obvious, heavy, powerful, actual, real, constant, massive, big, little, terrible, potential, immediate, possible, higher, spoiler. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Crying Wolf: Daniels is treated as doing this; it's just that he tends to go on alert much faster, and take infection risk much more seriously than his superiors would prefer.
Source: Film / Outbreak - Since alerts choose the members of a given team randomly from all the players queued, it's entirely possible to play the same alert multiple times with the same character and be curbstomped half the time - and risk falling asleep at the keyboard the other half.
Source: Video Game / Champions Online -
Out-of-Character Alert: Toni signals her distress when Tad breaks in by saying she would take a nap after her workout - this after her doctor told her, in no uncertain terms, not to work out at all or risk her pregnancy.
Source: Literature / Net Force
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