The archaeologist's notes contained an ambiguous reference to the site's age, leaving scholars to debate whether the ruins were from the Bronze or Iron Age.
考古学家的笔记中对遗址年代有一个模棱两可的提及，使学者们争论这些废墟是青铜时代还是铁器时代的。
Novelist Victor Lin argues that ambiguous endings often signal a writer's failure to fully develop their ideas, and that the strongest short stories commit to a clear resolution.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “ambiguous”?
B — Unclear, more than one meaning. “ambiguous” means unclear, more than one meaning.
Which word means “unclear, more than one meaning”?
C — ambiguous. “ambiguous” means unclear, more than one meaning.
ambiguous — unclear, more than one meaning. In Chinese: 模棱两可的.
ambiguous is pronounced /æmˈbɪɡjuəs/.
The archaeologist's notes contained an ambiguous reference to the site's age, leaving scholars to debate whether the ruins were from the Bronze or Iron Age. (考古学家的笔记中对遗址年代有一个模棱两可的提及，使学者们争论这些废墟是青铜时代还是铁器时代的。)
unclear, equivocal, vague — all close in meaning to ambiguous (unclear, more than one meaning).
clear, unambiguous — each the opposite of ambiguous (unclear, more than one meaning).
Yes. ambiguous is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
ambiguous(vague or unclear)