understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
synonym — Biology. one of two or more scientific names applied to a single taxon.
code word — A code word is a word or phrase that has a special meaning, different from its normal meaning, for the people who have agreed to use it in this way.
weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
delicacy — Delicacy is the quality of being easy to break or harm, and refers especially to people or things that are attractive or graceful.
grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
