Also, vestis, noun, "clothing or garment"
Divest: 1. to get rid of or free oneself of property, authority, or title. 2. to strip of clothing, ornaments, or equipment.
I was grateful to divest myself completely from real-estate as I saw Arizona real-estate values decline with no abatement in sight (30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%...). Homes declining 70%, huh? Is this the stock market?
Investiture: The formal placing of someone in office. Term originally referred to the new clothing placed upon someone taking office symbolizing power. Picture kings, popes, bishops, etc.
Transvestite: a person who wears the clothing and adopts the mannerisms of the opposite sex.
Begins with the prefix "trans," meaning "cross", thus in Latin transvestite is literally "cross dresser".
Travesty: 1. an inferior or distorted imitation. 2. a broadly comic imitation in drama, literature, or art that is grotesque and ridiculous.
Like transvestite, however less specific, it means "to disguise" in Latin. The Daily Show by John Stuart specializes in Political Travesty. I occasionally hear people use tragedy and travesty interchangeably- for the record, travesty does not mean tragedy and tragedy does not mean travesty. 9/11 was not a travesty- the guy caught on an airplane years after this event with a bomb in his underwear was a travesty.
