vers-, vert-, -verse, -version, -version, -versation, -versary, -vert, vort-, vors-
(Latin: bend, turn)
seroreversion
A loss in serological reactivity; may be spontaneous or in response to therapy.
sinistrorse
subversary
subversion
subversive
subvert
subverter
subvertible
suzerain
suzerainty
tergiversate
1. To use evasions or ambiguities; to equivocate in order to mislead or to withhold information.
2. To change sides; to apostatize or to abandon one's beliefs or allegiances, or to repudiate, renounce; to cast off or to disown.
tergiversation
1. Evasion of a point, as by prevarication or subterfuge.
2. Fickleness or insincerity of conduct; shiftiness.
tetrovert
thermal inversion
A meteorological condition characterized by a temperature increase; rather than a decrease, with the altitude.
During a thermal inversion, air pollution can increase dramatically as a mass of cold air is held in place below a warmer mass of air.
The absence of air circulation prevents the pollution near the earth's surface from escaping.
transversal
Inter-related cross references involving word units meaning "bend, curve, turn":
diversi-;
diverticul-;
flect-, flex-;
gyro-;
meand-;
-plex;
streph-;
stroph-;
tors-;
tropo-;
verg-;
volv-.
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