Today's Word "equivocate"
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equivocate \ih-KWIV-uh-kayt\ (intransitive verb) - To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite.
"A woman does not thrill, blush, equivocate, and faint for nothing; especially such a woman as Miss Leavenworth." -- Anna Katharine Green, 'The Leavenworth Case'
To equivocate is literally to call equally one thing or the other: It comes from the Medieval Latin aequivocare, from the Latin aequus, equal + vocare, to call (from Latin vox, voice).
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