gamble vs gambol
Definitions
noun
- money that is risked for possible monetary gain
- a risky act or venture
verb
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
- play games for money
Examples
It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
It cannot be smoked, drunk or gambled away.
By contrast, when Procter & Gamble, the makers of Olestra, asked the FDA for permission to add its artificial fat substitute to potato chips, the controversial product was evaluated under food-additive laws.
Definitions
verb
- play boisterously
noun
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
Examples
Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together.
The work is The Pretty Baa Lambs left, which shows a woman and baby in a field of gambolling lambs, and to modern eyes it seems remarkable that it shocked.
Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight.
