No Posts Using the Word Gambit?

    I learned this word in middle school, in one of those English books with many short stories, that highlights maybe 30 or so words per entry. "Mendacious", or "gamut", or less common words like plethora or cornucopia, the ones that seem more sophisticated to those at the middle school level. Gamut. Gambit. There are a large trough of words in English that we must learn as we age and mature, becoming better arbiters of our native tongue, more expert craftspeople of prose and the arts, communication and letters. We even learn French words like ennui and denouement, milieu and savoir faire. Oo la la, sacre bleu! 

    And what of this "gambit" word? Now I will record it in my blog, with counting more than 1300 posts since 2014. I told my wife it is like a planned risk, or perhaps a type of scheme to attempt.

    Let us look up the dictionary.

1

: a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position

2

a(1)

: a remark intended to start a conversation or make a telling point

(2)

: topic

b

: a calculated move : stratagem

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          There it is. I entered the paste and now my format is off. Oh, well. Now I have done it. My gambit at the word and meaning and a bit of context of gambit. Yes!!!