| Main Entry: |
equivocate |
| Part of Speech: |
verb |
| Definition: |
avoid an issue |
Synonyms: |
beat around the bush, beg the question, blow hot and cold, cavil, cloud the issue,
con, cop a plea, cop out, cover up,
dodge, double-talk,
elude,
escape,
eschew,
evade, falsify, fence, fib, flip-flop, fudge, give run around, hedge, hem and haw, jive,
lie, mince words, palter, parry, pass the buck,
prevaricate, pussyfoot,
quibble, run around, shuck,
shuffle, sidestep, sit on the fence, stonewall, tell white lie, tergiversate, tergiverse, waffle, weasel
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Antonyms: |
face, meet, speak on
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