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prevaricateverb to make a statement one knows to be untrueduring the hearings the witness was willing to prevaricate in order to protect his friend fabricate, fib, lie forswear(also foreswear), perjureequivocate, fudge, palterbeguile, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, hoax, hoodwink, kid, snow, take in, trickdefame, libel, slander, traducefalsify, misreport, misrepresent, misstatedistort, garbledissemble, dissimulatemisguide, misinform, mislead assert, swear, testifyauthenticate, confirm, substantiate, validate, verify lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth.lie is the blunt term, imputing dishonesty.lied about where he had been prevaricate softens the bluntness of lie by implying quibbling or confusing the issue.during the hearings the witness did his best to prevaricate equivocate implies using words having more than one sense so as to seem to say one thing but intend another.equivocated endlessly in an attempt to mislead her inquisitors palter implies making unreliable statements of fact or intention or insincere promises.a swindler paltering with his investors fib applies to a telling of a trivial untruth.fibbed about the price of the new suit ca. 1625 |