story vs prevarication

prevarication vs story

story and prevarication both are nouns.

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

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

story: a trivial lie
prevarication: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

Other hypernyms of story include lie.

story (noun)	prevarication (noun)
a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale	the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events	intentionally vague or ambiguous
a short account of the news	a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
a trivial lie
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
a record or narrative description of past events

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