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111insecurity — n 1. instability, weakness, frailty, pre cariousness, danger, jeopardy, hazard, peril, risk, riskiness, chancefulness, chanciness. 2. vulnerability, susceptibility, assailableness, defense lessness; exposure, openness to attack, imperilment. 3.… …
112uncertainty — n 1. doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, dubiety, skepticism; unsureness, hesitancy, hesitation; caution, wariness, tentativeness; suspicion, suspiciousness, diffidence, misgiving, distrust, mistrust. 2. guess, piece of guesswork; borderline case,… …
113risky — /ˈrɪski/ (say riskee) adjective (riskier, riskiest) 1. attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking. 2. → risqué. –riskily, adverb –riskiness, noun …
114riskily — risky ► ADJECTIVE (riskier, riskiest) ▪ involving risk. DERIVATIVES riskily adverb riskiness noun …
115risky — ► ADJECTIVE (riskier, riskiest) ▪ involving risk. DERIVATIVES riskily adverb riskiness noun …
116risky — [ris′kē] adj. riskier, riskiest involving risk; hazardous; dangerous riskily adv. riskiness n …
117high-risk — adjective not financially safe or secure a bad investment high risk investments anything that promises to pay too much can t help being risky speculative business enterprises • Syn: ↑bad, ↑risky, ↑speculative …
118risky — adj. (riskier, riskiest) 1 involving risk. 2 = RISQUEacute. Derivatives: riskily adv. riskiness n …
119speculativeness — noun 1. financial risk he rejected stocks that didn t pay dividends because of their speculativeness • Derivationally related forms: ↑speculative • Hypernyms: ↑riskiness, ↑peril 2. the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition …
120MANDELBROT, BENOIT — (1924– ), U.S. mathematician, scientist, and educator. Born in Warsaw, Poland, the nephew of the expert in mathematical analysis Szolem Mandelbrojt, Mandelbrot moved to France with his family in 1936. The need to avoid detection during the German …
