hazard

/ˈhæzəd/noun
Elementary
1

The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.

2

An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.

3

An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.

4

A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.

5

The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

6

A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.

7

Chance.

8

Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

9

The side of the court into which the ball is served.

10

A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

Sound Patterns & Rhymes

Rhymes

Words that share the same ending sound pattern

Alliteration

Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)

Assonance

Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing

Consonance

Words sharing similar consonant sound patterns — adds texture and cohesion to writing

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