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Ambit: such a tidy little word! I noticed it recently in a Squareword puzzle and thought it'd be fun to explore it.
"Ambit" has been around in English for hundreds of years. We took it from a Latin word meaning "the area all around a certain place."
Part of speech:
"Ambit" is a semi-common word.
"[Milton Hershey] restricted his beneficence to a very local ambit. The Hershey School specifically gives priority to at-need children who live in Dauphin County."
Explain the meaning of "ambit" without saying "range" or "bailiwick."
Fill in the blanks: "(Someone) grew up in the ambit of (some interesting, famous, or influential person)."
Try to spend 20 seconds or more on the game below. Don’t skip straight to the review—first, let your working memory empty out.
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Something outside of your AMBIT is
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