jive vs prevaricate

jive

verb
  • To deceive; to be deceptive. 

  • To jibe, in the sense of to accord, to agree 

  • To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc. 

noun
  • Swing, a style of jazz music. 

  • A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon. 

  • African-American Vernacular English. 

  • Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk. 

  • A dance style popular in the 1940–50s. 

prevaricate

verb
  • To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. 

  • To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. 

  • To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous. 

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