GRE Word List
EQUIVOCATE
to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive
The meaning of the word equivocate is to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |