Question

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."


request


theory


experiment


scheme

Answer 1

scheme — a clever or sneaky plan or trick (as shown by her pretending to have severe food allergies).