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estimation, approximation, rating, opinion, ranking, judgement,
reckoning, figuring, calculation, computation, determination:
The committee meets annually to discuss the evaluation of each
employee's contribution.
evaporate v. 1 vaporize; boil off or out; dehydrate, desiccate: Much of
the surplus liquid will evaporate during cooking. 2 disappear,
disperse, dissipate, vanish, evanesce, evanish, dispel; fade
(away), melt away, dissolve: Opposition to his appointment
seems to have evaporated.
evaporation
n. 1 vaporization, drying (up or out), dehydration,
desiccation, exsiccation, parching, searing: Clouds are formed
by the evaporation of terrestrial water. 2 disappearance,
dispersion, dispelling, dissipation, evanescence,
dematerialization, dissolution, fading (away), melting (away):
He was pleased to note the evaporation of all serious
opposition.
evasion n. 1 escape, avoidance, shirking, dodging: They disapproved of
his evasion of his civic duties. 2 subterfuge, deception,
deceit, chicane or chicanery, artifice, cunning, trickery,
sophistry, excuse, dodging, prevarication, lying, fudging,
evasiveness, quibbling, equivocation, double-talk: All the
interviewers' questions were met with evasion.
evasive adj. devious, indirect, equivocating, equivocal, misleading,
oblique, ambiguous, sophistical, casuistic, shifty, dissembling,
cunning, tricky, deceitful, Colloq cagey, Jesuitical: When
asked if he had visited her, he gave an evasive reply. She too
was evasive about how she had spent the evening.
eve n. 1 evening or day or night before, time or period before;
vigil: It was Christmas Eve, and we went out carolling. 2
verge, threshold, brink: We met on the eve of my departure for
Hungary.
even adj. 1 smooth, flat, plane, level, regular, uniform, flush,
straight, true: Sand the edges till they are even. 2
Sometimes, even with. level or uniform (with), coextensive
(with), flush (with), parallel (with or to): Make sure that the
lines at the bottom of the columns are even. Is that board even