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estimation, approximation, rating, opinion, ranking, judgement,<br />

reckoning, figuring, calculation, computation, determination:<br />

<strong>The</strong> committee meets annually to discuss the evaluation <strong>of</strong> each<br />

employee's contribution.<br />

evaporate v. 1 vaporize; boil <strong>of</strong>f or out; dehydrate, desiccate: Much <strong>of</strong><br />

the surplus liquid will evaporate during cooking. 2 disappear,<br />

disperse, dissipate, vanish, evanesce, evanish, dispel; fade<br />

(away), melt away, dissolve: Opposition to his appointment<br />

seems to have evaporated.<br />

evaporation<br />

n. 1 vaporization, drying (up or out), dehydration,<br />

desiccation, exsiccation, parching, searing: Clouds are formed<br />

by the evaporation <strong>of</strong> terrestrial water. 2 disappearance,<br />

dispersion, dispelling, dissipation, evanescence,<br />

dematerialization, dissolution, fading (away), melting (away):<br />

He was pleased to note the evaporation <strong>of</strong> all serious<br />

opposition.<br />

evasion n. 1 escape, avoidance, shirking, dodging: <strong>The</strong>y disapproved <strong>of</strong><br />

his evasion <strong>of</strong> his civic duties. 2 subterfuge, deception,<br />

deceit, chicane or chicanery, artifice, cunning, trickery,<br />

sophistry, excuse, dodging, prevarication, lying, fudging,<br />

evasiveness, quibbling, equivocation, double-talk: All the<br />

interviewers' questions were met with evasion.<br />

evasive adj. devious, indirect, equivocating, equivocal, misleading,<br />

oblique, ambiguous, sophistical, casuistic, shifty, dissembling,<br />

cunning, tricky, deceitful, Colloq cagey, Jesuitical: When<br />

asked if he had visited her, he gave an evasive reply. She too<br />

was evasive about how she had spent the evening.<br />

eve n. 1 evening or day or night before, time or period before;<br />

vigil: It was Christmas Eve, and we went out carolling. 2<br />

verge, threshold, brink: We met on the eve <strong>of</strong> my departure for<br />

Hungary.<br />

even adj. 1 smooth, flat, plane, level, regular, uniform, flush,<br />

straight, true: Sand the edges till they are even. 2<br />

Sometimes, even with. level or uniform (with), coextensive<br />

(with), flush (with), parallel (with or to): Make sure that the<br />

lines at the bottom <strong>of</strong> the columns are even. Is that board even

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