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equivocation

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12 lettersPronunciation /ɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aceiinooqtuvStarts with EEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language

Word origin

c. 1380, from Middle English equivocacion, from Old French equivocation, from Medieval Latin aequivocātiō, from aequivocō, from Late Latin aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”), from Latin aequus (“equal”) + vocō (“call”); a calque of Ancient Greek ὁμωνυμία (homōnumía).

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  • Federal courts have mostly ruled against the executive branch in such cases. The equivocation that has characterized the [Trump] administration’s legal responses to date is turning into objection and refusal.

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