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prevaricate

To prevaricate is to dance around the truth or speak evasively. (verb)

An example of prevaricate is what you do when your mother asks you where you have been and you don't want to tell her.

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See prevaricate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See prevaricate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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