obfuscation, secretiveness, intransigence, coverup, charade, discredit, prod, bamboozle, recalcitrance, inaction, craven, underhandedness, whitewash, acquiescence, subterfuge, obstinance, dither, obstructionist, evasiveness, hounding, silence, rubber stamp, spinelessness, hardball, gamesmanship, perfidy, squirm, rebuff, bludgeon, witch hunt, prevarication, lie, inquisition, bluff, fillibuster, ruse, nobble, denials, smokescreen, blackball, smear, leakers, dissembling, stalemate, obstinacy, counterattack, inutility, strongarm, evasions, disinformation, obduracy, secrecy, ride roughshod, bury, parry, cower, curry favor, stickhandle, hide, chicanery, budge, fig leaf, muckrake, duplicity, gotcha, truth, stalling, squelch, poke, backdoor, skullduggery, dodge, blackmail, bully, ratchet, coddle, malfeasance, dirty tricks, flummox, runaround, doublespeak, snub, rubberstamp, stubbornness, discombobulate, stonewaller, badgering, cagy, goad, unaccountability, blabby, bloviate, spying, weaseling, snoop, mendacity, sputter, fluster, ramrod, timidity, pigheadedness, investigatory, barricade, embankment, jackson, mantel, mountain, palisades, pilings, stockade, trestle, walls, waterfall, barn, boulder, cairn, fence, gibbet, newton, pier, piers, antebellum, bellum, postrevolutionary, postwar, prerevolutionary, prewar, tumultuous, war, edwardian, eventful, interwar, liberation, meiji, modern, postbellum, restoration, tumultous, turbulent, boom, chartist

block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy