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Tacit vs Prevaricate - What's the difference?

tacit | prevaricate |

As an adjective tacit

is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

As a verb prevaricate is

(transitive|intransitive|obsolete) to deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).

tacit

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
    • tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection
  • * 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s'' Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , page 62:
    • He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.
  • * 2004 , Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, ?Vivien Lowndes; ISBN 9287155798):
  • (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

    • Derived terms

    * tacitly * tacitness

    Related terms

    * taciturn * taciturnity * taciturnly

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    prevaricate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Verb

    (prevaricat)
  • (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.
    • The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * prevarication * prevaricator

    See also

    * lie ----