Face
Risk
Risk verb - To take a chance on.
Usage example: Colette didn't want to risk running out of food for her party, so she bought twice what she thought she would actually need
Face and risk are semantically related in take a chance topic. Sometimes you can use "Face" instead a verb "Risk".
How words are described
| good | good face | good risk |
| long | long face | long risk |
| similar | similar face | similar risk |
| friendly | friendly face | friendly risk |
| Other adjectives: stupid, small, actual, real, large, big, serious, huge, little, lower, main, new. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- When Floyd Mayweather was booked to face The Big Show at Wrestlemania 24, he was originally projected as the face, supposedly putting his boxing career at risk against a much larger opponent.
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Induced Hypochondria: When Emil finds a bruise in his face and asks Mikkel if there's risk of scarring, Mikkel has some fun telling him that face-bruises can turn cancerous if not properly treated.
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The EMT on the scene remarked that her face looked like "bloody hamburger" after the crash, and that's pretty much exactly what it was (search it at your own risk).
Source: Nightmare Face
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Risk or Face. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/face/risk.
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