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Word of the Day for Monday, September 21, 2009equivocate \ih-KWIV-uh-kayt\, intransitive verb: To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite. The witness shuffled, equivocated, pretended to misunderstand the questions. By equivocating, hesitating, and giving ambiguous answers, she effected her purpose. Dr. Lindzen does not equivocate. "We don't have any evidence that this is a serious problem," he says flatly. To equivocate is literally to call equally one thing or the other: It comes from Medieval Latin aequivocare, from the Latin aequus, equal + vocare, to call (from Latin vox, voice). | |||||||||
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