Vocabulary : Prevailment to Prevaricator

Prevailment : Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy.
Prevalence : The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
Prevalency : See Prevalence.
Prevalent : Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious. ;; Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
Prevalently : In a prevalent manner.

Prevaricate : To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. ;; To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. ;; To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. ;; To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
Prevaricated : of Prevaricate
Prevaricating : of Prevaricate
Prevarication : The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. ;; A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office. ;; The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution. ;; A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Prevaricator : One who prevaricates. ;; A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. ;; One who betrays or abuses a trust.

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