repudiate vs tergiversate

repudiate and tergiversate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
repudiate	No	No	Yes	No
tergiversate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, tergiversate is a hyponym of repudiate; that is, tergiversate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than repudiate:

repudiate: cast off
tergiversate: abandon one's beliefs or allegiances

Other hyponyms of repudiate include apostatise, apostatize, abjure, forswear, recant, resile, retract, swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw, rebut, refute, deny.

repudiate (verb)	tergiversate (verb)
refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid	abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
cast off	be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust
refuse to recognize or pay

repudiate vs tergiversate

repudiate and tergiversate both are verbs.

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