Adventure - My Word for 2016

2016 is a year of adventure.

Adventure is defined as (1):

• an exciting or very unusual experience. 
• participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises.

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The root, etymological, or historical meaning of adventure is, "to take a chance".  Ad means "to" and venture means "risky undertaking".  A venture is a place of fortune and chance.

Adventure means "a thing about to happen, come to, reach, or arrive at".  Adventure can involve risk and danger and be a trial of one's chances, or be a perilous undertaking.  Adventure may also mean a novel or exciting incident, a wonder, a miracle, or accounts of marvelous things (2).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:

• A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
• A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
• Risk; danger; peril.
• That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
• The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
•  To risk, or hazard; jeopardy; to venture.
•  To try the chance; to take the risk.
•  To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  

Synonyms for Adventure (3):

• enterprise
• escapade
• venture
• risk
• chance
• undertaking
• experience
• feat
• exploit
• happening
• occurrence
• deed
• event
• incident
• endeavor
• fortuity
• quest
• fortune
• happenstance
• journey
• passage
• pilgrimage
• attempt
• campaign
• engagement
• excitement
• fun
• initiative
• mission
• opportunity
• pursuit
• tour de force
• transaction
• trip
• accomplishment
• achievement
• activity
• chronicles
• crossing
• encounter
• migration
• outing
• trip

Antonyms for adventure:

• avoidance
• inaction
• inertia
• passiveness
• boredom
• latency
• abstention
• certainty

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1.WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2016
2..Online Etymology Dictionary
3. Power Thesaurus