TERGIVERSATE

PRONUNCIATION: (tuhr-JIV-uhr-sayt, TUHR-juh-vuhr-sayt)

MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To evade or to equivocate.
2. To change one’s loyalties.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tergiversari (to turn one’s back), from tergum (back) + vertere (to turn). Earliest documented use: 1654.
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HER GIVER'S ATE - a way of assigning an estimate to how she responds to fund-raising appeals

FERGIVER SATE - ran outa patience with this kind of behavior

TERGID VERSATE - producing bulging, ready-to-pop poetry