testify, testified, testifying, testifies.verbs
intransitive use-to bear witness (the exhilaration of weightlessness, to which many astronauts have testified); to make a declaration of truth or fact under oath; submit testimony (witnesses testifying before a grand jury); to express or declare a strong belief, especially to make a declaration of faith; to make a statement based on personal knowledge in support of an asserted fact; to serve as evidence (wreckage that testifies to the ferocity of the storm)
transitive use-to declare publicly; make known (testifying their faith); to state or affirm under oath (testified in court that he saw the defendant); to bear witness to; provide evidence for; indicate
testification, testifier.nouns

trifling.adjective
of slight worth or importance; trivial; frivolous or idle
triflingly.adverb

trifle.noun
something of little importance or value; a small amount; a jot; a dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry, rum, or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard, and whipped cream; a moderately hard variety of pewter; trifles (utensils made from this variety of pewter)
trifle, trifled, trifling, trifles.verbs
intransitive verb use.to deal with something as if it were of little significance or value; to act, perform, or speak with little seriousness or purpose; jest; to play or toy with something (she trifled with my affections); flirt
transitive verb use.to waste (time or money, for example)
a trifle.idiom
very little; somewhat (a trifle stingy)
trifler.noun

take to heart.idiom
to take seriously and be affected or troubled by

Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Historian: Tacitus wrote.Histories-(covering the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus, A.D. 14-to the death of Domitian A.D. 96)-and.Annals-(history of the Julian emperors from Tiberius to Nero), and which include emperors of Rome from Tiberius to Nero. He lauds the ideals of the Roman Republic and provides insight into many of the Roman emperors. Tacitus appears to have held the offices of quaestor in 79, praetor in 88, and consul in 97. He is believed to have been proconsul, or governor, of the Roman provinces in Asia, probably in 112-13. The last years of his life were devoted chiefly to the composition of his historical works, of which less than half are extant.

tenuous.adjective
long and thin; slender (tenuous strands); having a thin consistency; dilute; having little substance; flimsy (a tenuous argument)
tenuously.adverb
tenuousness.noun

though.conjunctive
despite the fact that; although (he still works on, though he knows it's past closing time; even though it was raining, she walked to work; though they may tire soon, they will still carry on)
though.adverb
however; nevertheless.(snow is not predicted; we can expect some rain, though; wouldn't that beat all, though?)

turmoil.noun
a state of extreme confusion or agitation; commotion or tumult.(a country in turmoil over labor strikes caused by greedy corporations refusing to pay fair wages for fair work)

tart, tarter, tartest.adjectives
having a sharp, pungent taste; sour; sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting
tartly.adverb
tartness.noun
tart, tarted, tarting, tarts.transitive verbs
to dress up or make fancy in a tawdry, garish way

Sir Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941
Bengali writer who tried to deepen mutual Indian and Western cultural understanding, known especially for his collection of poetry Gitanjali, 1912, based on traditional Hindu themes. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature; He was born in Calcutta, into a wealthy family, the son of the philosopher Debendranath Tagore. He began to write poetry as a child; his first book appeared when he was 17 years old. After a brief stay in England in 1878 to study law, he returned to India, where he rapidly became the most important and popular author of the colonial era, writing poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. He composed several hundred popular songs and in 1929 also began painting. A dedicated internationalist and educator, Tagore established a school in 1901 in his estate, Santiniketan, in Bengal, to teach a blend of Eastern and Western philosophies. In 1921 his school was expanded into an international university, Visva-Bharati..Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 99. © 1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

tart.noun
a small open pie with a sweet filling, as of custard or cooked fruit; a woman considered to be sexually promiscuous

tirade.noun
a long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe

tantra.noun
any of a comparatively recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature written in Sanskrit that combine religious instruction with physical discipline, and is concerned with mysticism and magic (magic is defined as what science has not yet understood about the invisible world)
tantric.adjective

torque.noun
a turning or twisting force; the moment of a force such as what you feel when a vehicle takes off from a stop sign or when you accelerate on the highway to pass a truck; the measure of a force's tendency to produce torsion and rotation about an axis, equal to the vector product of the radius vector from the axis of rotation to the point of application of the force
torque, torqued, torquing, torques.transitive verbs
to impart torque to
torquer.noun
torquey.adjective

talent.noun
a variable unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East; a talent of silver contained 3,000 shekels:.Exodus 38:25,26. The Greek talent was in the form of a circular mass, as the Hebrew name kikkar denotes and was 821/4 lbs. A talent of gold was double the weight of a talent of silver:.2Samuel 12:30. Parable of the talents.

Jewish money.......American dollars ($27.) and cents ($  .27)

one talent of silver.(about 125 lbs.)(3,000 shekels)
one talent of gold.(about 250 lbs.)(6,000 shekels)

(authorities differ as to exact figures)