10 Feb 2010

a.word.a.day, keeps the dictionary away. heh?

prevaricate

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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