way of life vs ambages

way of life and ambages both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
way of life	Yes	No	No	No
ambages	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ambages is a hyponym of way of life; that is, ambages is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than way of life:

Other hyponyms of way of life include primrose path, straight and narrow, strait and narrow, hadith, Sunna, Sunnah, warpath.

way of life (noun)	ambages (noun)
a course of conduct	(archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action