Emergency contraceptive pills are very safe to use. Side effects, if they occur at all, are usually short-term and mild. Nausea has been reported in about 18%, or 18 out of 100 women using levonorgestrel emergency contraception. Vomiting may also occur in about 4% of women.
Gambling is a good example of speculative risk. Gambling involves deliberate creation of risk in the expectation of making a gain. There is also the possibility of sustaining a loss. A person betting $500 on the outcome of the next weekend English Premier League Match faces both the possibility of loss and of gain and of no loss, no gain.
risk. 1  exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk. 2. Insurance. the hazard or chance of loss. the degree of probability of such loss. the amount that the insurance company may lose. a person or thing with reference to the hazard involved in insuring him, her, or it.