随着教育的发展，GRE考试与时俱进发生了变革，推出了新GRE考试。改革之后的新GRE考试对GRE词汇量的考察虽有所下降，但是并不意味着对GRE新词的考察难度降低了，事实上增加了对GRE词汇的考察难度，所以考生们一定不能放松对GRE词汇的复习，需要掌握更多的GRE词汇量。以下是无忧小编为大家整理的有关prevaricate的考法及近义词和反义词的整理。

　　prevaricate: 支吾其词; to deviate from the truth: equivocate

　　1) to lie or deviate from the truth

　　2) to speak equivocally or evasively, i.e., to lie

　　Syn: deceive, equivocate, misrepresent, lie, perjure

　　prevaricate : deceive

　　prevaricate : truth

　　prevaricate : deceit

　　prevaricate : dishonesty

　　1. Rather than admit that he had overslept again, the employee prevaricated and claimed that heavy traffic had prevented him from arriving at work ontime.

　　2. Do not prevaricate about who did what or why; simply tell me how the vase got broken.

　　The mayor's desperate attempt to prevaricate about the scandal was transparent to the voters.

　　His mother knew no one else could have done it, but the child foolishly prevaricated about the stain on the rug.

　　prevaricate : deceive = exhortation : encourage

　　prevaricate : deceive = filibuster : delay :: blandishment : coax

　　equivocate : clarity = prevaricate : truth

　　prevaricate : deceit = filibuster : delay

　　equivocate/palter/falter/prevaricate 含糊其辞,说模棱两的话

　　参加过新GRE考试的同学会亲身体会到GRE词汇考察的下降并没有是GRE考试变得简单，甚至加大了GRE词汇量，因为新GRE词汇改变了对学生考察的侧重点，更加注重对实际语言能力的考察。

　　本文总结了新GRE词汇中高频了出现的一些词汇，单词是GRE考试的基础，所以考生们一定要多背诵GRE词汇，扩充自己的GRE词汇量，打好基础才是GRE考试中获得成功的关键。