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   equivocate

   /ɪˈkwɪvəkeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself: "the government have equivocated too often in the past"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘use a word in more than one sense’): from late Latin aequivocat- ‘called by the same name’, from the verb aequivocare, from aequivocus (see equivocal).

   Derivatives

   • 1. equivocatory adjective

   Scrabble Points: 24

   • E

     1

   • Q

     10

   • U

     1

   • I

     1

   • V

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   • O

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     3

   • A

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