t 1 e 1 r 1 g 2 i 1 v 4 e 1 r 1 s 1 a 1 t 1 e 1
12 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
verb abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
originBorrowed from Latin tergiversātus, perfect active participle of tergiversor (“to evade, to avoid, to turn one's back on”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from tergum (“back, hind”) + versor (“to turn”). Compare French tergiverser.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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