GRE Word List
PREVARICATE
to deviate from the truth : equivocate
The meaning of the word prevaricate is to deviate from the truth : equivocate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| contrive | devise |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |