Luck and Peril

Luck

Luck noun - The uncertain course of events.

Usage example: let's plan our vacation rather than leave everything to luck

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Peril and luck are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Peril" instead a noun "Luck".

Nearby Words: lucky, luckless, luckily, luckiness, lucking

Peril noun - Something that may cause injury or harm.

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Luck and peril are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Luck" instead a noun "Peril".

Nearby Words: perish, perilous, perilously, periled

old	old luck	old peril
complete	complete luck	complete peril
sheer	sheer luck	sheer peril
actual	actual luck	actual peril
Other adjectives: constant, extreme, great, serious, terrible, personal, fantastic, general, awful, further, immense, tremendous, worst.

Often, the titular character of Tintin overcomes a peril not thanks to his skills, but because of sheer blind luck.

Source: Born Lucky
In The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, nearly everyone you meet — regardless of whether they're in deadly peril or even already dead — is eager to "fuse Kinstones" with Link: match up broken halves of supposedly luck-altering ceramic circles, which Link finds in bushes and under rocks.

Source: Serious Business / Video Games

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