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Title

• equality

• how to say yes or no

• statement of various kind

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equality

• par: the number of strokes allowed according to the results achieved by experts players in golf

  the word is taken from latin word meaning equal

• When we speak of parity payments to farmers, we refer to payments that show an equality to earnings for some agreed-upon year

• So when you disparage, you lower someone's par, or feeling of equality

  • disparagement (noun)

  • disparaging (adj)

    eg: why do you always make disparaging remarks about me?

• parity: equality

• disparity: lack of equality, or a difference

  • disparate (adj): essential or complete difference or inequality

• The word compare and all its forms (comparable, comparative, etc) derive from par.

• pair and peer are also from par

how to say yes or no

latin root:  aequus  +   vox, vocis
             (equal)      (voice)

• equivocate: saying both yes and no with equal voice

  • an equivocal answer, is by design vague, indefinite, and susceptible of contradictory interpretations

  • unequivocal: opposite of equivocal

  • equivocation

statement of various kind

Note: Do not confuse equivocal with ambiguous. An equivocal statement is purposely, deliberately (and with malice aforethought) couched in language that will be deceptive; an ambiguous statement is accidentally couched in such language.

In short, equivocal is purposely ambiguous.

• ambiguous: both one meaning and another meaning

  latin root:  ambi-
              (both)

  • ambiguity

• double entendre: double meaning