Set and Wager

Set

Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.

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Wager and set are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wager" instead a verb "Set".

Nearby Words: setup, setting

Wager verb - To risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event.

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Set and wager are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Set" instead a verb "Wager".

Nearby Words: wage, wagering, wagered

better	better set	better wager
similar	similar set	similar wager
common	common set	common wager
standard	standard set	standard wager
Other adjectives: small, large, big, huge, double, last, previous.

set house

wager house

Satan wagers with God that the only reason why Job is so humble is because God has granted him so much in his youth, and thus a wager was set forth that Satan can get Job to curse God.

Source: From Bad To Worse / Literature
The lawyer, fifteen years older and wiser, leaves the cell five minutes before the contract is set to expire, willfully renouncing the banker's wager of two million rubles and rejecting the foolish vanities of wealth.

Source: Creator / Anton Chekhov

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