This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
ambit
Pronounced: (AM-bit)
Noun:
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control
From Vocabulary.com: “The origins of ambit go back to the Latin word for “going about or going round,” ambitus, and for a time, ambit literally meant “the area surrounding a building.” Today, the range of a person or group’s power is their ambit.”
Example:
“Having dealt strictly in residential real estate for more than twenty years, the prospect of taking on the sale of a ten-story office building felt somewhat outside my ambit.”
