voc-, voca-, vocab-, vocat-, -vocation, -vocative, -vocable, vok-, -voke +

1. Open declaration or acknowledgment (being recognized).
2. A frank admission or acknowledgment.

The state, or quality, of being avowed (positively stated).

1. Someone who admits, or acknowledges, openly and boldly.
2. Someone who claims to speak the truth.

1. The acknowledgment and justification of the taking of the goods by the defendant in an action of of replevin (a legal act, or writ, to recover goods by someone who claims to own them and who promises to have the claim later tested in court).
2. A situation where the defendant in an action of replevin, avows the taking of the distress in his own right, or in right of his wife, and sets forth the cause of it, as for arrears of rent, damage done, or the like.

Prolonged inflammation of the mucous membrane extending inferiorly from the vocal folds for up to several centimeters.

1. A large formal assembly; such as, of a college or university community, or the senior members of a church.
2. The arranging, or calling together, of a formal meeting.
3. Etymology: from Latin convocationem, from convocare, "to call together"; from com-, "together" + vocare, "to call"; from vox, "voice".

To call, or to convene, a formal meeting or to call people together for a meeting.

Someone who summons people together to meet or to assemble as a group.

To deny any knowledge of, responsibility for, or association with someone or something.

1. The denial of any connection with, or knowledge of, someone or something.
2. A disowning, repudiation, or denial.

A description of disclaiming knowledge of, connection with, disowning of, or repudiating, responsibility for something.

Someone who disavows or who refuses to acknowledge, who disclaims knowledge of, responsibility for, or association with someone or something.

1. Open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead.
2. Open to more than one interpretation, especially in being deliberately expressed in an ambiguous way in an attempt to mislead someone: "The politician made an equivocal reply to a tough question."
3. Difficult to interpret, to understand, or to respond to: "His position on this issue is equivocal and nobody knows how he is likely to react to the accusation."
4. Arousing doubts and suspicions, especially about someone's honesty or sincerity.

1. In an equivocal manner or with a double interpretation, uncertainty.
2. Characterized by being subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse someone or even a number of people.

1. A position or statement lacking clarity by virtue of having more than one meaning.
2. Being ambiguous, doubtful, dubious, indefinite, obscure, suspicious, and uncertain; such as, being naturally understood in one way, but it is also easily capable of having a different interpretation.