odds
The odds are the chances that something will happen. If you flip a coin, the odds are 50-50 you'll get heads.
When we talk about odds, we're talking about probabilities, specifically, how likely it is that something will happen. Is there a 5% chance? Is there a 95% chance? If there's a 95% chance, then the odds are great. We can talk about the odds of anything happening, as long as it hasn't happened yet. Anyone predicting the weather is telling the odds of rain or snow — they don't know for sure. If something strange happens people often say, "What were the odds of that?", which means: "I can't believe that happened. The odds were against it."
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the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
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the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another“he offered odds of two to one”synonyms: betting oddstype of:ratiothe relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
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Vocabulary lists containing odds
In this classic novel, a boy enters a dogsled race in the hopes of winning enough money to save his grandfather's farm.
Vocabulary from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."
As you read Act 5 of William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Hamlet," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 12's Collection 4: Hamlet, Act 1, Hamlet, Act 2, Hamlet, Act 3, Hamlet, Act 4, Hamlet, Act 5, Hamlet's Dull Revenge, Tell Them Not to Kill Me!, Blocking the Transmission of Violence, Hatred