prevarication vs story

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. 

story

noun
  • A lie, fiction. 

  • A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account. 

  • An account of real or fictional events. 

  • A soap opera. 

  • A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period. 

verb
  • To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about. 

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