vacillate
[verb]
Synonyms: hesitate, dither, falter, halt, shilly-shally, stagger, waver, whiffle, wiggle-waggle

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Contrasted words: decide, resolve, settle
Related Idioms: blow hot and cold, hem and haw, swing from one thing to another
Related Words: swag, sway, swither, alternate, seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, wag, waggle, wigwag, wobble, dally, dawdle, fiddle-faddle

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vac‧il‧late /ˈvæsəleɪt, ˈvæsɪleɪt/ verb [intransitive] formal
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: past participle of vacillare 'to move from side to side, fail to decide']
to continue to change your opinions, decisions, ideas etc Synonym : waver
vacillate between
Her parents vacillated between different approaches to discipline.
—vacillation /ˌvæsəˈleɪʃən, ˌvæsɪˈleɪʃən/ noun [uncountable and countable]

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