新GRE常考察词汇vacillate

　　vacillate: 犹豫; to waver in mind, will, or feeling

　　1) to sway physically; to be indecisive

　　2) to sway or fluctuate; to waver in feeling or hesitate in making a decision 

　　3) to waver; to sway back and forth; to fluctuate or oscillate;

　　4) to waver in attitude; show indecision

　　5) to waver; to sway indecisively

　　相近词汇: oscillate, stagger, swing; alternate, hedge, pause, dither, falter, fluctuate, oscillate, waver

　　vacillation resolution

　　vacillate equipoise, stand firm, resolve firmly, resolute

　　vacillate : indecision = bristle : anger

1. The customer held up the line as he vacillated between ordering chocolate chip or rocky road ice cream.

　　2. Roberta vacillated for so long that by the time she decided to go to the show, the tickets were all sold out.

　　3. It is not unusual for ones position on an issue to vacillate as more and better information becomes available.

　　4. Homer and Marge often vacillate on where to go for their summer vacation.

　　vacillating, vacillation

　　-equipoise:

　　to equal or offset in weight; balance. Vacillate: to sway unsteadily; waver; totter; stagger.

　　vacillation constancy

　　vacillation impetuosity

　　vacillation motionless balance

　　vacillation pertinacity

　　vacillation decisiveness, pertinacity

　　pompous : pontificate irresolute : vacillate 同义

　　unswerved : vacillate capricious/whimsical/headlong : deliberate 反义

　　irresolute: vacillate pompous: pontificate

　　vacillate decisiveness, equipoise

　　 resolute