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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ter·gi·ver·sa·tion /ˌtɝˌʤɪvɚ/
 搪塞,背叛,變節

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ter·gi·ver·sa·tion n.
 1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
    Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations.   --Abp. Bramhall.
 2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.
    The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service.   --Clarendon.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 tergiversation
      n 1: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn:
           equivocation]
      2: the act of abandoning a party or cause [syn: apostasy]