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tergiversate vi. 搪塞,推托,变节,背叛,自相矛盾 搪塞,推托,变节,背叛,自相矛盾 tergiversate v 1: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information [ synonym: { beat around the bush}, { equivocate}, { tergiversate}, { prevaricate}, { palter}] 2: abandon one' s beliefs or allegiances [ synonym: { apostatize}, { apostatise}, { tergiversate}] Tergiversate \ Ter" gi* ver* sate\, v. i. [ L. tergiversatus, p. p. of tergiversari to turn one' s back, to shift; tergum back versare, freq. of vertere to turn. See { Verse}.] To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [ R.] -- Bailey. [ 1913 Webster] 59 Moby Thesaurus words for " tergiversate": alternate, apostatize, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, choplogic, come round, desert, dither, do a flip- flop, do an about- face, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, fluctuate, have second thoughts, hedge, hem and haw, hum and haw, mince the truth, mince words, mystify, nitpick, obscure, oscillate, palter, parry, pendulate, pick nits, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, rat, renounce, repudiate, shift, shilly- shally, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, teeter, totter, turn, vacillate, vary, waffle, waver, weasel, wheel, wobble
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