prevarication vs falsehood

prevarication and falsehood both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prevarication	Yes	No	No	No
falsehood	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, falsehood is a hypernym of prevarication; that is, falsehood is a word with a broader meaning than prevarication:

Other hypernyms of prevarication include falsity, untruth.

prevarication (noun)	falsehood (noun)
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth	the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
intentionally vague or ambiguous	a false statement
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth