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To: PatiBob who wrote (43334)	7/24/2002 7:45:32 PM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Word of the Day for Wednesday July 24, 2002: 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. The witness shuffled, equivocated, pretended to misunderstand the questions. --Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England By equivocating, hesitating, and giving ambiguous answers, she effected her purpose. --Harriet Martineau, Letters from Ireland Dr. Lindzen does not equivocate. "We don't have any evidence that this is a serious problem," he says flatly. --William K. Stevens, "Skeptic Asks, Is It Really Warmer?" [1]New York Times, June 17, 1996 _________________________________________________________ Equivocate is from Medieval Latin aequivocare, "to be called by the same name," from Latin aequus, "equal" + vocare, "to call," from vox, "voice."