The underlined word "ambition" in the context of the excerpt refers to an objective or goal. The passage implies that both Buck and Dave have aspirations beyond their desire to be left alone, indicating they have important goals or motivations in their lives.
Read this excerpt from The Call of the Wild, and consider the context clues.
His only apparent ambition, like Dave's, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition.
What is the meaning of the underlined word?
objective or goal
happiness or joy
weakness or flaw
possession of belonging
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