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  • 21trifling — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Mouse, airy, asinine, banal, bickering, brimful, brimming, captious, catchpenny, caviling, chic, chipper, chitchat, chitter chatter, choplogic, classy, commonplace, coquetry, crammed, crowded, cursory, dabbling …

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  • 22trivial — Synonyms and related words: Mickey, NG, airy, ankle deep, asinine, base, bickering, captious, casual, catchpenny, caviling, cheap, choplogic, cursory, deficient, depthless, empty, epidermal, equivocatory, evasive, fatuous, few, flimsy, foolish,… …

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  • 23uncertain — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonic, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, amphibological, amphibolous, at a loss, at loose ends, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, broken, capricious,… …

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  • 24equivocate — [ɪ kwɪvəkeɪt] verb use ambiguous or evasive language. Derivatives equivocation noun equivocator noun equivocatory adjective Origin ME: from late L. aequivocat , aequivocare call by the same name , from aequivocus (see equivocal) …

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  • 25elusive — a. 1. Evasive. See elusory. 2. Equivocating, shuffling, equivocatory …

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  • 26equivocate — /əˈkwɪvəkeɪt / (say uh kwivuhkayt), /i / (say ee ) verb (i) (equivocated, equivocating) to use equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead; prevaricate. {backformation from equivocation} –equivocatingly, adverb –equivocator …

  • 27equivocate — v.intr. use ambiguity to conceal the truth. Derivatives: equivocation n. equivocator n. equivocatory adj. Etymology: ME f. LL aequivocare (as EQUIVOCAL) …

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