Difference between Prevarication and Equivocation

PREVARICATION vs EQUIVOCATION: NOUN

Intentionally vague or ambiguous
A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
The act of prevaricating or deviating, especially from truth, honesty, or plain-dealing; evasion of truth or duty; quibbling or shuffling in words or conduct.
Transgression; violation: as, the prevarication of a law.
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office or commission.
In law: The conduct of an advocate who betrayed the cause of his client, and by collusion assisted his opponent.
The undertaking of a thing falsely, with intent to defeat the object which it was professed to promote.
The wilful concealment or misrepresentation of truth by giving evasive and equivocating evidence.
The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
The deliberate act of deviating from the truth
Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.

Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
Intentionally vague or ambiguous
A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
The use of equivocal language.
An equivocal statement or expression.
In logic, a fallacy depending upon the double signification of some one word: distinguished from amphibology, which depends upon the doubtful interpretation of a whole sentence.
Ambiguity of speech; specifically, the use, with a view to mislead, of words or expressions susceptible of a double signification; prevarication.
Synonyms Prevarication, etc. (see evasion); shuffling, quibbling, quibble, equivoke.
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.
A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.

Maneuver, Cheating, Abuse, Graft, Delusion, Deceitful, Maladministration, Evasion, Deception, Deceit, Lying, Fabrication, Lie, Evasiveness, Equivocation

Doublespeak, Shilly shallying, Maneuver, Mistake, Confusion, Misunderstanding, Misinterpretation, Procrastination, Doubt, Ambiguity, Hesitation, Tergiversation, Evasion, Evasiveness, Prevarication

Duplicity, Dishonesty, Mendacity, Manoeuvring, Maneuver, Abuse, Graft, Deceitful, Maladministration, Deception, Deceit, Lying, Fabrication, Lie, Evasiveness

Untruth, Falsehood, Disingenuousness, Logical fallacy, Sophistry, Mendacity, Doublespeak, Maneuver, Mistake, Confusion, Doubt, Ambiguity, Hesitation, Evasiveness, Prevarication

This kind of prevarication is what keeps this scandal going.
If you open your eyes before I reach a hundred, Georgeanne tried to answer without prevarication.
It was much cheaper and only one left in stock, so no time for prevarication.
Let us see whether we cannot defend him from this reproach of falsity and prevarication.
It was classic Holder: full of weird prevarication, distracting eye twitches and other facial contortions.
Craft, cunning, lying, fraud, hypocrisy, trickery, delusion, duplicity, deceitfulness, falsehood, prevarication.
Corrosively fribble marc may perfume e_adverb unto the smudgy prevarication.
Telling sentence; you think prevarication is evidence of wisdom?
He knows she is a master of prevarication.
The Philistine king rebuked him for his prevarication.

Hanna surmounted that troublesome question by private assurances and public equivocation.
However, the fallacy of equivocation is specifically an inferential mistake.
The Constitution bestows pardon power without restriction or equivocation.
Each member of the jury answered affirmatively without equivocation.
To do otherwise could result in equivocation and confusion.
Bill and the referendum without reservation, equivocation or qualification.
Secondly, the equivocation is found in an argument.
This in turn prompted his equivocation with Pharaoh.
What is the significance of equivocation in Macbeth?
Be on guard against equivocation, ambiguity or dissimulation.