verb (v)

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information(verb.communication)

  Synonym:
  beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, tergiversate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.(verb)

  source: webster1913