prevaricate

Questions about prevaricate

What does prevaricate mean?

prevaricate means "be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information".

How many syllables are in prevaricate?

prevaricate has 4 syllables: pre-var-i-cate. The stress falls on "var". In IPA it is /pɹəˈvɛɹəkeɪt/.

What is another word for prevaricate?

Close synonyms include beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, palter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prevaricate a common word?

prevaricate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.