WHat does hazard mean?

[Halil Ibrahim]

Synonyms Lesson, Advanced Level

ESL/EFL Test #111 "Synonyms for danger", question 9

If you want to swim beyond that point you have to do it at your own ......... because no one will take responsibility for whatever happens to you.

(a) peril
(b) jeopardy
(c) hazard
(d) risk

Synonyms Lesson, Advanced Level

ESL/EFL Test #111 "Synonyms for danger", answer 9

If you want to swim beyond that point you have to do it at your own risk because no one will take responsibility for whatever happens to you.

Correct answer: (d) risk
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could you give some more example about 'hazard' and its meaning.

thanks
Halil Ibrahim

[Mister Micawber]

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1 wing together a man in an occupation of high hazard and a woman balanced on a knife-edge between
2 le singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little
4 mile that he was not exposed to it enough to hazard comments. "As my wife puts it", he said, aga
5 ome far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world".
6 postles of the discipline of spontaneity and hazard, look alike, and do look like accidents. The
7 Arp and Max Ernst might talk of creation by hazard- of composing pictures by walking on them wi
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8 t necessary to add to the other tensions the hazard of making the loving husband the one who bro
9 ther testing on the grounds of the radiation hazard to future generations. It could have continu
10 orities of this challenging concerto were no hazard to him. But they were not what distinguished
11 poison sprays, if they are used, present no hazard to the consumer. E02 1450 2
12 e forest may be, trees offer a leaf and root hazard to the well-being of a pool. Yet a grassy ap
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who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
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