palter vs misinform

palter and misinform both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
palter	No	No	Yes	No
misinform	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, misinform is a hypernym of palter; that is, misinform is a word with a broader meaning than palter:

palter: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
misinform: give false or misleading information to

Other hypernyms of palter include mislead.

palter (verb)	misinform (verb)
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information	give false or misleading information to