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Read the following sentences:

Lydia’s gambit to find the secret ingredient in Gert’s prize-winning molasses cookies was to pretend she had severe food allergies and needed to know the recipe as a matter of life and death. It was a sneaky trick, and it worked.

Based on context clues in the reading, define "gambit."


scheme


request


experiment


theory

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Answer:

Scheme

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Answer:

theory

Step-by-step explanation:

Diffenation of gambit.

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

2a(1): a remark intended to start a conversation or make a telling point

(2): TOPIC

b: a calculated move : STRATAGEM

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