vacillation
the inability to decide between different courses of action; wavering
Vacillation in a sentence
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Months of vacillation cost the company the deal, which a rival closed while the board was still debating.
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The treaty was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy, yet historians now regard its terms as blank, since they merely postponed the conflicts they claimed to resolve.
More GRE words starting with V
to waver indecisively between options or opinions
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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