Question

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

Answer 1

C - Dishonesty

Step-by-step explanation:

"Prevarication is when someone tells a lie, especially in a sneaky way. A child might use prevarication to avoid telling the whole truth about how the kitchen window got broken."

So dishonesty would be the answer.

Answer 2

C. Dishonesty

Step-by-step explanation:

Prevarication is when someone tells a lie, especially in a sneaky way.