Related Words:
- equivocation
collapse - falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- intentionally vague or ambiguous related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- apparent soundness,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- counterword,
- defense mechanism,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double,
- double entendre,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivoque,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasive reasoning,
- evasiveness,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- fencing,
- fluctuation,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- insincerity,
- irony,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- jink,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- misapplication,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mystification,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oscillation,
- oversubtlety,
- oxymoron,
- paltering,
- paradox,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- pun,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- self-contradiction,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squinting construction,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the runaround,
- trichoschistism,
- vacillation,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wavering,
- weasel word,
- weasel words,
- wobbling,
- zigzag
- deposition
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- the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office
- (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something related words >
- admission,
- affidavit,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- allocation,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- ash,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- assignment,
- attest,
- attestation,
- authority,
- authorization,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- bill,
- bill of complaint,
- bill of health,
- cashiering,
- certificate,
- certificate of proficiency,
- certification,
- cinder,
- claim,
- clinker,
- collocation,
- complaint,
- compurgation,
- credential,
- declaration,
- deconsecration,
- defrocking,
- deployment,
- deposal,
- deposit,
- deposits,
- deprivation,
- dethronement,
- diluvium,
- diploma,
- disbarment,
- disbarring,
- disclosure,
- discrownment,
- disenthronement,
- dismissal,
- displacement,
- disposition,
- draff,
- dregs,
- dross,
- ember,
- emplacement,
- excommunication,
- expulsion,
- feces,
- firing,
- forced resignation,
- froth,
- grounds,
- impeachment,
- instrument in proof,
- kicking upstairs,
- lading,
- lees,
- legal evidence,
- libel,
- liquidation,
- loading,
- localization,
- locating,
- location,
- loess,
- manifesto,
- moraine,
- narratio,
- navicert,
- nolle prosequi,
- nonsuit,
- notarized statement,
- note,
- offscum,
- ousting,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- packing,
- pensioning off,
- pinpointing,
- placement,
- placing,
- position paper,
- positioning,
- posting,
- precipitate,
- precipitation,
- profession,
- purge,
- putting,
- removal,
- reposition,
- retirement,
- scoria,
- scum,
- sediment,
- settlings,
- sheepskin,
- silt,
- sinter,
- situation,
- slag,
- smut,
- solemn declaration,
- soot,
- spotting,
- statement,
- statement of belief,
- statement of facts,
- statement under oath,
- stationing,
- storage,
- stowage,
- sublimate,
- superannuation,
- suspension,
- swearing,
- sworn evidence,
- sworn statement,
- sworn testimony,
- testamur,
- testimonial,
- testimonium,
- testimony,
- ticket,
- unchurching,
- unfrocking,
- unseating,
- visa,
- vise,
- voucher,
- vouching,
- warrant,
- warranty,
- witness,
- word
- yielding
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- tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington
- lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
- inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person" related words >
- abandonment,
- abatement of differences,
- abdication,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- acceptance,
- accommodating,
- accommodation,
- acquiescence,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- adjustment,
- agreeable,
- amenable,
- arrangement,
- assent,
- bargain,
- bearing,
- bendable,
- bending,
- biddable,
- bouncy,
- cession,
- complaisance,
- compliance,
- compliant,
- composition,
- compromise,
- concession,
- consent,
- convenient,
- cop-out,
- deal,
- deference,
- desertion of principle,
- dispensation,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- docile,
- dropping out,
- ductile,
- dumping,
- elastic,
- evasion of responsibility,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- feasible,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- foolproof,
- forgoing,
- formable,
- formative,
- forswearing,
- fructiferous,
- fructification,
- fruitbearing,
- fruiting,
- fruition,
- getting rid of,
- give-and-take,
- giving,
- giving up,
- giving way,
- handing over,
- handy,
- homage,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- kneeling,
- letting go,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- manipulable,
- moldable,
- mushy,
- mutual concession,
- nonopposal,
- nonopposition,
- nonresistance,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- obedience,
- obedient,
- obeisance,
- obliging,
- pappy,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- practical,
- producing,
- pulpy,
- quaggy,
- recantation,
- receptive,
- release,
- relinquishment,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- resignation,
- resigned,
- resignedness,
- resilient,
- responsive,
- retraction,
- riddance,
- rubbery,
- sacrifice,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- settlement,
- shapable,
- soft,
- spongy,
- springy,
- squashy,
- squelchy,
- squishy,
- squushy,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissive,
- submittal,
- supineness,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- swearing off,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- unaustere,
- undemanding,
- understanding,
- unexacting,
- unharsh,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- unsevere,
- unstrict,
- untroublesome,
- waiver,
- whippy,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- willowy,
- withdrawing
- affirmation
collapse
- a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand
- (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds)
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something related words >
- John Hancock,
- OK,
- Parthian shot,
- a priori principle,
- acceptance,
- accord,
- acquiescence,
- address,
- admission,
- affidavit,
- affirmance,
- affirmative,
- affirmative voice,
- agreement,
- allegation,
- answer,
- apostrophe,
- approbation,
- approval,
- apriorism,
- assent,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- assumed position,
- assumption,
- attest,
- attestation,
- authentication,
- authorization,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- axiom,
- aye,
- backing,
- backing up,
- basis,
- bearing out,
- blessing,
- bolstering,
- buttressing,
- categorical proposition,
- certification,
- circumstantiation,
- comment,
- compliance,
- compurgation,
- confirmation,
- connivance,
- consent,
- corroboration,
- corroboratory evidence,
- countersignature,
- crack,
- data,
- declaration,
- deposition,
- dictum,
- disclosure,
- documentation,
- eagerness,
- endorsement,
- exclamation,
- expression,
- first principles,
- fortification,
- foundation,
- go-ahead,
- green light,
- greeting,
- ground,
- hypothesis,
- hypothesis ad hoc,
- imprimatur,
- instrument in proof,
- interjection,
- legal evidence,
- lemma,
- major premise,
- mention,
- minor premise,
- nod,
- notarization,
- notarized statement,
- note,
- observation,
- okay,
- permission,
- philosopheme,
- philosophical proposition,
- phrase,
- position,
- postulate,
- postulation,
- postulatum,
- premise,
- presupposition,
- profession,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- pronouncement,
- proof,
- proposition,
- propositional function,
- proving,
- proving out,
- question,
- ratification,
- readiness,
- reflection,
- reinforcement,
- remark,
- rubber stamp,
- sanction,
- say,
- saying,
- seal,
- sentence,
- sigil,
- signature,
- signet,
- stamp,
- stamp of approval,
- statement,
- statement under oath,
- strengthening,
- subjoinder,
- submission,
- subscription,
- substantiation,
- sumption,
- support,
- supporting evidence,
- supposal,
- swearing,
- sworn evidence,
- sworn statement,
- sworn testimony,
- testimonial,
- testimonium,
- testimony,
- the nod,
- theorem,
- thesis,
- thought,
- truth table,
- truth-function,
- truth-value,
- undergirding,
- ungrudgingness,
- unloathness,
- unreluctance,
- utterance,
- validation,
- verification,
- visa,
- vise,
- vouching,
- warrant,
- willingness,
- witness,
- word
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