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Sometimes, you need a generic word like range or series.
In modern western music, we sing the major scale to the syllables do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, and back to do.
Part of speech:
Pick the common, formal word "gamut" to describe a broad range of things when you want to compare them to the orderly arrangement of musical notes.
"Techniques for approaching noisy neighbors run the gamut from measured letters to management interventions."
Explain the meaning of "gamut" without saying "range" or "continuum."
The poet Carolyn D. Wright wrote:
Try to spend 20 seconds or more on the game below. Don’t skip straight to the review—first, let your working memory empty out.
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A near opposite of GAMUT is
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