(n.) Escape; the act of eluding or avoiding\, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

abstention airtight secrecy anythingarianism artifice avoidance avoiding reaction bickering boggling break breakout buck-passing captiousness caviling chicane chicanery circumvention close secrecy closeness concealment cop-out cringe crypticness cunning deceit deception defense mechanism deliverance delivery discreetness discretion dodge dodging double-talk duck elusion elusiveness emergence equivocating equivocation escape escapism eschewal evasive action evasiveness excuse extrication fallback fence-sitting fencing flight flinch foiling forbearance forestalling forestallment freeing frustration fudging getaway getting around getting round haggling hairsplitting hedging hiddenness hugger-mugger hugger-muggery impartiality independence issuance issue jailbreak jink leak leakage liberation logic-chopping lying mugwumpery mugwumpism neutralism neutrality nit-picking nonalignment noncommitment nonintervention noninvolvement nonpartisanism nothingarianism outguessing outlet outmaneuvering outwitting paltering parrying passing the buck pettifoggery prevarication prevention prisonbreak pullback pullout pussyfooting quibbling recoil refraining release rescue retreat riddance runaround secrecy secretiveness secretness setting-free shifting shirking shuffle shuffling shunning shunting off shy sidestep sidestepping sidetracking slip sophistry strict neutrality subterfuge suppressio veri tergiversation the dark the runaround the slip thwarting trichoschistism trickery uncommunicativeness vent weasel words wince zigzag