A very cool word of the day

tergiversation \tuhr-jiv-uhr-SAY-shuhn\, noun
1. The act of practicing evasion or of being deliberately ambiguous.
2. The act of abandoning a party or cause.

Tergiversation comes from Latin tergiversatus, past participle of tergiversari, "to turn one's back, to shift," from tergum, "back" + versare, frequentative of vertere, "to turn." The verb form is tergiversate.

I really can’t wait to use this word in a casual conversation; it has wonderful prosody. I know it’s a soft “G” sound in the second syllable, but when I look at it, I hear Gene Wilder saying “Sed-a-give?!”, and that makes me happy.

Words like this make me glad we're making Kitten study Latin.