PRONUNCIATION:
(pri-VAR-i-kayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To avoid telling the truth by being ambiguous, evading, or misleading.ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin praevaricari (to straddle, to collude), from varicare (to straddle), from varus (knock-kneed, bent outwards). To prevaricate is to straddle the boundary between truth and falsehood. i guess, i have been prevaricating in all my posts. :)
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