NICKEL AND DIMED
“The ad is for ‘customer service’ work, a type of job I tend to avoid because it normally involves a resume, which in turn would involve levels of prevarication I am not prepared to attempt.”


In the quote above from Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, what does the term prevarication mean?
A.
intellect
B.
degradation
C.
dishonesty
D.
effort
E.
self-control