vacillate
to waver indecisively between options or opinions
Word origin: From Latin vacillare, to sway or totter.
Vacillate in a sentence
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She vacillated for weeks before finally accepting the job offer.
The board vacillated for months, endorsing the merger one week and reconsidering it the next.
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The treaty's terms were deliberately blank, allowing each side to interpret the key clauses in whatever way best suited its own interests.
Using “vacillate” well
To vacillate is to waver indecisively between options or opinions, suggesting an inability to commit. It is the opposite of resolving or deciding firmly.
More GRE words starting with V
the inability to decide between different courses of action; wavering
total absence of thought, ideas, or substance
empty of meaning, substance, or intelligence
a person who roams from place to place with no fixed home
an unpredictable or capricious change or notion
a person who wanders without a settled home or work
excessively boastful and vain about one's achievements
excessive, ostentatious pride in oneself or one's achievements
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