prevaricate
61equivocate — I verb avoid a straight answer, be ambiguous, be false, be unclear, be untruthful, be vague, deceive, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, dodge, elude, evade, fence, hedge, lie, misguide, misinform, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, mystify, palter …
62feign — I verb affect, beguile, belie, cheat, concoct, counterfeit, create a false appearance, deceive, delude, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, distort the truth, fabricate, falsify, fingere, imagine, imitate deceptively, impersonate, lack candor, he… …
63misstate — I verb be deceptive, be erroneous, deceive, delude, dissemble, distort, falsify, give a false impression, give a wrong idea, lead astray, lead into error, lie, misguide, misinform, mislead, misreport, misrepresent, pervert, prevaricate, state… …
64palter — I verb act, act insincerely, be deceitful, be deceptive, be dishonest, be evasive, be false, be fraudulent, be hypocritical, be inconstant, be insincere, be mendacious, be perfidious, be uncandid, be untruthful, bear false witness, beguile,… …
65pretend — I verb act, affect, assume, be deceitful, be hypocritical, beguile, bemask, bluff, cheat, claim falsely, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, disguise, dissemble, dissimulare, dissimulate, dupe, fake, falsify, feign, fingere, fool, give a false… …
66fabricate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. build, construct, manufacture; invent, make up, trump up, concoct. See production, imagination, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To construct] Syn. erect, make, form; see build 1 , manufacture 1 …
67equivocate — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. hedge, dodge, prevaricate; see lie 1 . See Synonym Study at lie . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) v. [i KWIV uh kate] to use vague or ambiguous language, usually to evade. The politician would equivocate to… …
68perjure — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. prevaricate, swear falsely, falsify; see lie 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb Law. To make untrue declarations: falsify, fib, forswear, lie2, prevaricate. See TRUE …
69vary — [14] Latin varius meant ‘speckled, variegated, changeable’ (it gave English various [16], and may have been related to Latin vārus ‘bent, crooked, knock kneed’, source of English prevaricate). It had a range of derivatives, which have given… …
70prevaricator — c.1400, from L. praevaricator, agent noun from praevaricari (see PREVARICATE (Cf. prevaricate)) …
