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Can you work with the words?

1. parity a. belittlement

b. act of being deliberately vague or

indirectly deceptive; statement that is
2. disparity
deceptive or purposely open to contrary

interpretations

c. quality of being open to misinterpretation;
3. disparagement
statement with this quality

d. statement or word with two meanings, one
4. peer of them risqué, indelicate, or of possible

sexual connotation

5. equivocation e. inequality

6. ambiguity f. equality

7. double entendre g. one’s equal