tergiversate vs mislead

tergiversate and mislead both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tergiversate	No	No	Yes	No
mislead	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, mislead is a hypernym of tergiversate; that is, mislead is a word with a broader meaning than tergiversate:

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

Other hypernyms of tergiversate include misinform.

tergiversate (verb)	mislead (verb)
abandon one's beliefs or allegiances	give false or misleading information to
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information	lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions