[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency:Chance governs all.Antonyms: necessity", "luck or fortune:a game of chance.Synonyms: fortuity , accident", "a possibility or probability of anything happening:a fifty-percent chance of success.Synonyms: contingency", "an opportune or favorable time; opportunity :Now is your chance.Synonyms: opening", "Baseball.an opportunity to field the ball and make a putout an assist .", "a risk or hazard:Take a chance.", "a share or ticket in a lottery or prize drawing:The charity is selling chances for a dollar each.", "chances, probability :The chances are that the train hasn't left yet.", "Midland and Southern U.S.a quantity or number (usually followed byof):a fine chance of tomatoes, harvested fresh from the garden today.", "Archaic.an unfortunate event; mishap."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to happen or occur by chance:It chanced that our arrivals coincided.Synonyms: befall"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to take the chances or risks of; risk (often followed by impersonalit):I'll have to chance it, whatever the outcome."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["not planned or expected; accidental :a chance occurrence.Synonyms: fortuitous , casual"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to come upon by chance; meet unexpectedly:She chanced on a rare kind of mushroom during her walk through the woods."]}]