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3. prospect, possibility, the realm of possibility, con-ceivability, conceivableness; probability, probableness, likelihood, likeliness, liability.
4. opportunity, opening; time, occasion, turn, round, Inf. shot; sporting chance; advantage, good time, good chance, good opportunity; odds-on, sure bet, Inf. sure thing, golden opportunity.
5. risk, hazard, gamble; speculation, venture, Inf. flier, Inf. plunge, Sl. whack, Sl. crack; potshot, random shot, leap or shot in the dark, pig in a poke; pot-luck, blind bargain, sight-unseen transaction.
6. by chance accidentally, unintentionally, undesignedly, without design, by accident, by mistake; inadvertently, involuntarily, unwittingly, unthinkingly, unconsciously; randomly, haphazardly, casually, incidentally, unpredictably, whichever way the wind blows; luckily, fortuitously, as it chanced, as luck would have it, by a piece of luck, by a fluke, by good fortune or a piece of good fortune.
-v. 7. occur, transpire, happen, hap, come, come about, come to pass, come off, Sl. come down, take place, betide; befall, fall, fall to one's lot, Archaic. bechance; result, come to, eventuate; turn up, crop up, Inf. show up, Inf. pop up.
8. Informal, risk, hazard, gamble; speculate, venture, Inf. plunge, Inf. go out on a limb; dare, jeopardize, tempt fortune, take or run the risk or hazard or chance; take a chance, try one's luck or fortune; leave or trust to chance, take a leap or shot in the dark.
9. chance on or upon happen upon, come on or upon, come across, stumble on or upon, hit upon, find; encounter, meet, meet with, run across, run into, cross the path of, Inf. meet up with, Inf. come or run up against, Inf. bump into, Inf. run smack into.
-adj. 10. random, haphazard, casual, arbitrary, hit-or-miss; fortuitous, serendipitous, aleatory, unpredictable, Inf. fluky; unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for; accidental, unintentional, unintended, unpremeditated, undesigned, unplanned, uncalculated; indeliberate, inadvertent, involuntary; incidental, occasional, contingent, adventitious. chandelier, n. luster, corona, light fixture, gasolier, electrolier; candelabrum, candlestick, candleholder, sconce. change, v. 1. substitute, shuffle, alternate, diversify, variegate; exchange, interchange, commute, switch, replace; bandy, barter, trade, swap.
2. alter, modify, permute, modulate, inflect, mutate; convert, transform, metamorphose, transfigure, transmute, transubstantiate, transmogrify; translate, transpose, metathesize; revolutionize, transshape, remodel, recast, reconstruct, restyle; shift, reorganize, reorder, permutate; distort, warp, bend, twist, denature, disguise.
3. vary, fluctuate, vacillate, tergiversate, Inf. blow hot and cold; reverse, turn, swerve, Inf. whistle or sing a different tune, Inf. be on the other side of the fence, Sl. do an about-face, Sl. do a 180°; move, evolve, grow, improve, better, reform; worsen, deteriorate, decline. -n. 4. alteration, modification, permutation, modulation, inflection, mutation; conversion, transformation, metamorphosis, evolution, transfiguration, transmutation, transubstantiation, transmogrification; translation, transposition, metathesis, transition; revolution, innovation, novelty, new idea or thing.