- abeyance: (n) Suspension
- abstemious: (adj) Restricted to bare necessities
- circumvent: (v) Go around
- elude: (v) Avoid capture
- eschew: (v) To avoid, abstain
- evasion: (n) clever avoidance
- malinger: (v) To fake illness to avoid work
- oblique: (adj) Not direct
- shirk: (v) Neglect
- shun: (v) To willfully ignore