The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - evasion n.

1) escape, avoidance, shirking, dodging: They disapproved of his evasion of his civic duties. 2) subterfuge, deception, deceit, chicane or chicanery, artifice, cunning, trickery, sophistry, excuse, dodging, prevarication, lying, fudging, evasiveness, quibbling, equivocation, double-talk: All the interviewers' questions were met with evasion.