Time Latin Temporize Tem Puh Rize Verb Act Suit Situation

[From French temporiser (to bide one's time), from Medieval Latin temporizare (to pass the time), from Latin tempor-, from tempus (time).]

"Over the past several months, as the international community has continued to temporize, conditions in Sudan have worsened." - Editorial: Darfur, Continued; The Providence Journal (Rhode Island); Apr 19, 2005.

"They've a temper, some of them--particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!" boasts Humpty-Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's 1872 classic, "Through the Looking Glass".