Prevaricate vs Conceal - What's the difference?
prevaricate | conceal |
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
(legal) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
(legal, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
(lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
As verbs the difference between prevaricate and conceal
is that prevaricate is (transitive|intransitive|obsolete) to deviate, transgress; to go astray (from) while conceal is (lb) to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.prevaricate
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(prevaricat)- The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.