SAT vocabulary
Confines
The farthest limit, extremity, or boundary of an area, sphere of knowledge, or realm
Example
"After weeks of rigorous research, the scholar reached the far confines of known historical documentation."
Etymology
From Old French confins, from Latin confinium ('border, boundary'), from con- ('together') + finis ('end, border').
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