Meaning and example
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
The passage used "equivocate" to mean be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.429 places equivocate in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 92.8% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 92.7%
make less active or intense
- Known by
- 92.7%
containing or based on a fallacy
- Known by
- 92.8%
the use of brief expressions
- Known by
- 92.9%
make sense of; assign a meaning to
- Known by
- 93%
a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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