falsehood vs prevarication

falsehood

noun
  • The property of being false. 

  • A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie. 

prevarication

noun
  • Evasion of the truth. 

  • A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office. 

  • A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it. 

  • The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution. 

How often have the words falsehood and prevarication occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )