prevarication vs tale

prevarication and tale both are nouns.

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

As nouns, tale is a hyponym of prevarication; that is, tale is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than prevarication:

Other hyponyms of prevarication include fib, story, taradiddle, tarradiddle, jactitation, walloper, whopper, white lie.

prevarication (noun)	tale (noun)
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth	a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
intentionally vague or ambiguous	a trivial lie
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth