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  • 71palter — v 1. lie, stretch the truth, prevaricate, fib, Inf. talk through one s hat, Inf. tell the big lie, Inf. speak with forked tongue; mince words, not tell the whole truth or story; equivocate, quibble, Sl. waffle, fudge, beat around or about the… …

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  • 72quibble — n 1. equivocation, prevarication, evasion, dodge, elusion, avoidance; shuffling, shifting, hedging, beating around the bush; qualification, compromise, cop out; ambiguity, amphibology, vagueness, indefiniteness, indistinctness, indeterminateness; …

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  • 73sophisticate — n 1. man or woman of the world, man about town, playboy, city boy, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, citizen of the world, world traveler; connoisseur, gourmet, one of impeccable taste, one who knows his way around, one who s been around. v 2.… …

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  • 74straddle — v 1. bestride, bestraddle, get astride of, stand or sit astride; sit or stand with legs apart. 2.Informal. refrain from committing oneself, be noncommittal, waffle, hedge, sit on the fence; be vague or indefinite or ambiguous, equivocate, Inf.… …

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  • 75trim — v 1. clip, snip, nip, prune, pare; cut, bob, crop, shingle; shear, shave, fleece, pollard, poll, scalp, cut down to the quick; neaten, even up; shape, form, fashion, sculpt, sculp, sculpture. 2.Often trim off dock, bobtail, lop, chop, hack, cut… …

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