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101swing — v 1. sway, oscillate, pendulate, librate; vacillate, rock, move back and forth or backward and forward, lurch, yaw; wag, wave, waver, waggle, Naut. jibe; wobble, bob, dangle, hang; seesaw, teeter totter, ebb and flow, come and go, wibble wabble;… …
102shift — Synonyms and related words: Doppler effect, aberrancy, aberration, about ship, about the bush, about face, accommodation, action, ad hoc measure, adaptation, adjustment, advance, alchemy, alter, alteration, alternate, ameliorate, amelioration,… …
103oscillate — v 1. vibrate, move to and fro, swing, move backward and forward, come and go, librate, move from side to side, ebb and flow, seesaw, wigwag. 2. fluctuate, vacillate, waver, vary, yo yo, teeter totter; about face, change, change one s mind, Brit.… …
104oscillate — Synonyms and related words: alternate, back and fill, be here again, bob, bobble, careen, change, circle, coggle, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, cycle, dangle, dither, ebb and flow, equivocate,… …
105vacillate — Synonyms and related words: alternate, back and fill, bob, bobble, careen, change, changeable, chop and change, coggle, dally, dallying, dangle, demurring, dickey, dillydallying, dither, double minded, doubtful, doubting, ebb and flow, eccentric …
106waver — Synonyms and related words: alternate, back and fill, beat, beating, bicker, blench, bob, bobble, boggle, careen, change, coggle, dance, dangle, demur, dither, ebb and flow, equivocate, falter, fight shy of, flap, flick, flicker, flinch, flip,… …
107vacillate — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To totter] Syn. waver, sway, stagger; see reel , totter 2 . 2. [To hesitate] Syn. fluctuate, dawdle, falter; see hesitate , pause . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) v. [VAS uh LATE] to waver or be indecisive.… …
108exception — proves the rule, the. A widely misunderstood expression. As a moment’s thought should confirm, it isn’t possible for an exception to confirm a rule but then, that isn’t the sense that was originally intended. Prove here is a fossil that is, a… …
109shilly-shally — v 1. vacillate, yo yo, seesaw, teeter totter; waver, be indecisive, be irresolute, hesitate, hem and haw; go back and forth, fluctuate, oscillate, alternate, blow hot and cold, tergiversate, straddle the fence. n 2. irresolution, indecision,… …
110vacillate — v 1. shilly shally, tergiversate, seesaw, Inf. flip flop, Inf. yo yo; oscillate, fluctuate, go back and forth, blow hot and cold, keep changing one s mind; dither, waver, falter, hesitate, pause, be irresolute, be indecisive, straddle the fence,… …
