prevarication (n.)

• bickering
• bouncer
• canard
• chicane
• chicanery
• coloring
• confabulation
• distortion
• dodging
• equivocation
• evasion
• exaggeration
• falsehood
• falsification
• falsifying
• falsity
• farrago
• fencing
• fib
• fiction
• flam
• flimflam
• hairsplitting
• half-truth
• hedging
• lie
• mendacity
• misconstruction
• misrepresentation
• misstatement
• paltering
• perjury
• perversion
• pettifoggery
• shifting
• shuffle
• shuffling
• story
• straining
• subterfuge
• tale
• taradiddle
• tergiversation
• untruth
• yarn