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  2. Feigned madness - Wikipedia

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    To avoid responsibility [ edit ] Vincent Gigante , American Mafia don , was seen wandering the streets of Greenwich Village , Manhattan in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself, in what he later admitted was an elaborate act.

  3. Obfuscation - Wikipedia

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    Obfuscation is the obscuring of the intended meaning of communication by making the message difficult to understand, usually with confusing and ambiguous language. The obfuscation might be either unintentional or intentional (although intent usually is connoted), and is accomplished with circumlocution (talking around the subject), the use of jargon (technical language of a profession), and ...

  4. Selective mutism - Wikipedia

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    Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is otherwise capable of speech becomes unable to speak when exposed to specific situations, specific places, or to specific people, one or multiple of which serve as triggers.

  5. Sleep-talking - Wikipedia

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    It can range from simple mumbling sounds to loud shouts or long, frequently inarticulate, speeches. It can occur many times during a sleep cycle and during both NREM and REM sleep stages, though, as with sleepwalking and night terrors, it most commonly occurs during delta-wave NREM sleep or temporary arousals therefrom. [1]

  6. Mumblety-peg - Wikipedia

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    In one basic version of the game, a knife is embedded in the ground and players attempt to extract it using only their teeth. In other versions this is a forfeit for the loser of the game.

  7. Evasion (ethics) - Wikipedia

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    In ethics, evasion is an act that deceives by stating a true statement that is irrelevant or leads to a false conclusion.For instance, a man knows that another man is in a room in the building because he heard him, but in answer to a question, says "I have not seen him", thereby avoiding both lying and making a revelation.

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    4. Avoid One-Way Tickets for Multi-City Travel. The worst way to book multi-city travel is to buy each leg as a one-way ticket, especially for long-haul international flights.

  9. Coprolalia - Wikipedia

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    Coprolalia encompasses the uncontrollable utterance of words and phrases that are culturally taboo or generally unsuitable for acceptable social use, when used out of context.