prevaricate vs prove

prevaricate

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

  • 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. 

prove

verb
  • To turn out; to manifest. 

  • To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for. 

  • To put to the test, to make trial of. 

  • To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify. 

  • To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested. 

  • simple past tense of proove 

  • To turn out to be. 

noun
  • The process of dough proofing. 

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