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oscillate

verbCommon GRE wordMore O words

to move or swing back and forth, or to waver between options

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Oscillate in a sentence

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Public opinion continued to oscillate between hope and fear during the crisis.

Synonyms
fluctuatewavervacillate
Antonyms
stabilizesettle

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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.

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Questions about “oscillate”

Oscillate (verb) means to move or swing back and forth, or to waver between options
Here is oscillate used in an example sentence: "Public opinion continued to oscillate between hope and fear during the crisis."
Common synonyms for oscillate include fluctuate, waver, vacillate.
Antonyms of oscillate include stabilize, settle.
Oscillate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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