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    She knows she's equivocating.  (source)
    equivocating = avoiding expression an opinion or decision
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    The feeling was that if he, George Washington, who had so much, was willing to risk "his all," however daunting the odds, then who were they to equivocate.  (source)
    equivocate = be noncommittal
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    I still remember how, right from the start when I asked you to be Auggie's welcome buddy, you embraced that wholeheartedly and without equivocation.  (source)
    equivocation = ambiguity (mixed messages)
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    His final statements, however, were concise and without equivocation.  (source)
    equivocation = ambiguity
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He may want more time for his decision—he may believe there is something to be said for both sides—he may feel that a slight amendment could remove all difficulties—but when that roll is called he cannot hide, he cannot equivocate, he cannot delay—and he senses that his constituency, like the Raven in Poe's poem, is perched there on his Senate desk, croaking "Nevermore" as he casts the vote that stakes his political future.†  (source)
    equivocate = speak in a manner that does not clearly express an opinion or decision
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    Equivocated.†  (source)
    Equivocated = spoke in an ambiguous manner that did not clearly express an opinion or decision
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    But since thou hast on earth Heard vain disputers, reasoners in the schools, Canvas the' angelic nature, and dispute Its powers of apprehension, memory, choice; Therefore, 't is well thou take from me the truth, Pure and without disguise, which they below, Equivocating, darken and perplex.†  (source)
    Equivocating = speaking in an ambiguous manner that does not clearly express an opinion or decision
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    This is no time for equivocations.  (source)
    equivocations = ambiguousness through generalities
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's sake,  (source)
    equivocator = liar (someone who speaks in a misleading, ambiguous manner)
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    it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to: in conclusion, equivocates him  (source)
    equivocates = sometimes favors and sometime disfavors
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    Israel's ambassador to Washington inadvertently muddied the waters when he refused to state categorically and without equivocation that Gabriel Allon was indeed no longer among the living.  (source)
    equivocation = ambiguity
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    He began, that hour, a sordid strategy which his old proud self would have called inconceivable; he began to equivocate, to put off announcement and production till he should have "cleared up a few points," while week on week Hunziker became more threatening.†  (source)
    equivocate = speak in a manner that does not clearly express an opinion or decision
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    He equivocated and stalled long enough to find a greater magic with which he could defeat me—Pandora's Box.†  (source)
    equivocated = spoke in an ambiguous manner that did not clearly express an opinion or decision
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