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Word of the Day for Sunday, March 27, 2011equivocate \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. By equivocating, hesitating, and giving ambiguous answers, she effected her purpose. Dr. Lindzen does not equivocate. "We don't have any evidence that this is a serious problem," he says flatly. To equivocate is literally to call equally one thing or the other: It comes from Medieval Latin aequivocare, from the Latin aequus, equal + vocare, to call (from Latin vox, voice). | |||||||||
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  What was Scrabble's original name, and what does "brailing" have to do with the game?Great things can come out of hard times - take Scrabble. During the Great Depression, architect Alfred Mosher Butts couldn't find work. So, he decided to create a board game that required the vocabulary skills of anagrams and crossword puzzles but also had an element of chance. Butts hand-drew the original board with architectural drafting equipment.... | |||||||||
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