When one comes across an unfamiliar word, it is customary to consult a dictionary for illumination of the meaning of the unfamiliar term.

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Given my close working relationship with risk, I decided to check out its official meaning in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.

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In a sinister ironic climax, his boss, a police captain with a sadistic intellectual bent, pins him to the meaning of words looked up in the dictionary.

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