Madam, are you questioning the ___ of my expense-account report?
veracity
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She’s an unusual person—a political leader who is known for her ___.
veracity
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The congressman ___ during a discussion of stem-cell research at a White House conference in order to delay the vote and create more time for his committee members to lobby opponents of the upcoming bill.
temporized
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In an effort to help their accomplice steal some chips from the corner deli, the two hoodlums ___ with the man at the cash register, distracting him with stories about the old neighborhood.
temporized
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The congregants were deeply disappointed to learn that the deacon had been ___, and had taken the offering and eloped with the preacher’s daughter.
dissembling
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He wanted to go into politics, so he took courses in drama to perfect his already significant ___ skills
dissembling
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“Telling me you had to work late last night was pure ___,” Alyssa shouted at her husband. “I know you were out playing cards with the boys to avoid having dinner with my mother.”
subterfuge
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Through careful ___, including dipping his thermometer into a cup of hot tea when his mother wasn’t looking, Harvey managed to convince his parents that he was far too sick to go to school.
subterfuge
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The reporter asked if all the talk about discussing, considering, and appointing a committee was just ___ for the fact that no real action was planned.
circumlocution
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Silent Cal Coolidge was known for his short, direct answers; he was not given to ___.
circumlocution
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The skillful candidate’s artful ___ led people on both sides of the issue to conclude that he agreed with them.
equivocations
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Some salesmen and office-seekers seem to make a vocation out of ___.
equivocation
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The teacher was never sure if Randy was making ___, but his sniggering classmates knew.
double entendres
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Hannibal the cannibal was making a ___ when he said he was having an old friend over for dinner.
double entendre
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The offended gentleman insisted that the comment was a base ___, and demanded an apology
canard
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The speech was short on policy statements, long on ___ lobbed at the opposing party.
canards
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In Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities the unreliable character John Barsad fears he will be apprehended in France despite “his utmost ___.”
tergiversation
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President George H. W. Bush is remembered for his clever phrase, “Read my lips. No new taxes,” but not everyone remembers that he later ___ on that issue.
tergiversated
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He’s being ___—intentionally misrepresenting the truth through calculated omission of information.
subreptious
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Too late they discovered that the fund managers were engaging in ___—cooking the books to give the clients and auditors a picture that was much rosier than the truth.