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PREVARICATION
Definition of PREVARICATION
noun
Evasion of the truth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; duplicity, deceit; violation of duty, transgression”, literally “stepping out of line”), from praevāricor (“to walk crookedly; go astray; transgress”) + -tās. The virtually obsolete sense of deviation or transgression may have been influenced by an earlier stage of borrowing via Middle English prevaricacioun, prevaricacion (“deviation from the law; transgression”) from Anglo-Norman prevaricaciun (“transgression, violation of correct conduct”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
27th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (101)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PREVARICATION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PREVARICATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PREVARICATION starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AACEIINOPRRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, A and I appear more than once.
Words that start PREVARICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PREVARICATION?
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