adventure vs wager

adventure

noun
  • The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. 

  • A text adventure or an adventure game. 

  • A remarkable occurrence; a striking event. 

  • A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. 

  • A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. 

wager

noun
  • Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. 

  • An offer to make oath. 

  • A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. 

  • That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. 

verb
  • To suppose; to dare say. 

  • To bet something; to put it up as collateral. 

How often have the words adventure and wager occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )