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    She vacillated between excitement and fear as the competition approached.
    vacillated = moved back and forth
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    I had been vacillating during the last month between Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker.  (source)
    vacillating = changing my mind back and forth
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    I began a process of vacillating between music and writing that would take eight years to complete before I realized I could work successfully as a writer and musician.  (source)
    vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    And back home, the media were vacillating between dead and missing, whichever made the best story on the day, I guess.  (source)
    vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    ...and there was so much vacillation as to whether their loyalties lay here or over there that they ended up mired in a...  (source)
    vacillation = changing one's mind back and forth
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    ...she vacillated between the certainty that he still loved her and the hopelessness of their situation.  (source)
    vacillated = changed her mind back and forth
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    And so long as we vacillate, so long will we pay dearly for the dubious pleasure of not having to make up our minds.  (source)
    vacillate = to change one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.†  (source)
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    He vacillates, halfheartedly initiates, and then draws back and regroups.  (source)
    vacillates = changes his mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    I find it difficult to look at him, vacillating as I do from feeling the deepest empathy for his mortification to being barely able not to laugh.  (source)
    vacillating = changing back and forth
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    The vacillation between the various plans that were proposed had even increased after the Emperor had been at headquarters for a month.  (source)
    vacillation = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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    the dollar had fallen, gold risen; strikes had crippled, and governments had vacillated between action and paralysis.  (source)
    vacillated = swayed back and forth
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    Lines and colours almost persuade me that I too can be heroic, I, who make phrases so easily, am so soon seduced, love what comes next, and cannot clench my fist, but vacillate weakly making phrases according to my circumstances.†  (source)
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