Avoid and Risk

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Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

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Risk is an antonym for avoid.

Risk verb - To take a chance on.

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Avoid is an antonym for risk in take a chance topic.

Nearby Words: risky, risked, riskiness, risking

attention	avoid attention	risk attention
wrath	avoid wrath	risk wrath
attack	avoid attack	risk attack
people	avoid people	risk people
Other words: death, destruction, time, arrest, injury, fight, battle, capture, damage, pain, prosecution, paradox, war, anyone.

The idea of the Guild Navigators is that they use the limited precognition the Spice gives them to see the risk and avoid it.

Source: Faster-Than-Light Travel
Homicide: Life on the Street made it a point to avoid this as detectives who hit suspects can not only wreck their case but put their job at risk and can even risk Assault charges.

Source: Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
He literally is willing to risk the destruction of the world to avoid doing this.

Source: No Ending

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