vacillate
va suh layt
- v be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- v move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
the line on the monitor vacillated
- Robert's bottom less ambition made Julia vacillate between a passionate admiration of him and a jealousy that often came close to hatred.
- Our imaginations vacillate between an Edenic Latin America, which nevertheless betrayed our parents, and the repellent plate-glass doors of a real American city, which has been .
- Beneath the multicolored surface, the city's 407,018 inhabitants vacillate between racial harmony and ethnic tension.