noun
- Indecision in speech or action.
- synonyms: hesitation, vacillation
- The quality of being unsteady and subject to changes.
- usage: "he kept a record of price fluctuations"
- synonyms: fluctuation
verb
- Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness.
- usage: "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"
- Be unsure or weak.
- usage: "Their enthusiasm is faltering"
- Move hesitatingly, as if about to give way.
- Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern.
- usage: "the line on the monitor vacillated"
- Move back and forth very rapidly.
- usage: "the candle flickered"
- Sway to and fro.
- Give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency.
adjective
- Uncertain in purpose or action.
- synonyms: vacillant, vacillating
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