vacillate

vacillate
    v 1: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting
         positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between
         accepting the new position and retirement" [syn: {hover},
         {vibrate}, {vacillate}, {oscillate}]
    2: move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern;
       "the line on the monitor vacillated" [syn: {fluctuate},
       {vacillate}, {waver}]
    

Vacillate \Vac"il*late\ (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
   p. {Vacillated} (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Vacillating}.] [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[~n]c.]
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   1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to
      waver.
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            [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and
            vacillatefrom one axis to another.    --Paley.
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   2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or
      inconstant; to waver.
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   Syn: See {Fluctuate}.
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104 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacillate":
      alternate, back and fill, bob, bobble, careen, change, changeable,
      chop and change, coggle, dally, dallying, dangle, demurring,
      dickey, dillydallying, dither, double-minded, doubtful, doubting,
      ebb and flow, eccentric, equivocate, erratic, falter, faltering,
      fickle, fiddle-faddle, flounder, fluctuant, fluctuate, fluctuating,
      flutter, go through phases, halt, halting, hang in doubt,
      hem and haw, hesitant, hesitate, hesitating, inconstant,
      indecisive, insecure, irresolute, librate, lurch, mercurial,
      nutate, oscillate, oscillating, pendulate, pendulous, pitch, reel,
      resonate, ring the changes, rock, roll, rootless, seesaw, shake,
      shaky, shift, shifting, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffle,
      stagger, stop to consider, swag, sway, swing, teeter,
      teeter-totter, tentative, tergiversate, think twice, timid, toss,
      totter, turn, uncertain, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady,
      unsure, vacillating, vacillatory, vary, vibrate, volatile, wag,
      waggle, wave, waver, wavering, wax and wane, weak, weak-kneed,
      whiffle, wigwag, wobble, wobbly