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{"id": "vacillate", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "vacillate", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "vacillator", "text": "vacillator"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late 16th century (in the sense \u2018sway unsteadily\u2019): from Latin vacillat- \u2018swayed\u2019, from the verb vacillare"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/vacillate_gb_2.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8vas\u026ale\u026at"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive"], "examples": [{"text": "I vacillated between teaching and journalism"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1117910.005", "shortDefinitions": ["waver between different opinions or actions"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "dither"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be indecisive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be irresolute"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be undecided"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be uncertain"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be unsure"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be doubtful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "waver"}, {"language": "en", "text": "teeter"}, {"language": "en", "text": "temporize"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hesitate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "oscillate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fluctuate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "keep changing one's mind"}, {"language": "en", "text": "irresolute"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hesitant"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tentative"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dithering"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wavering"}, {"language": "en", "text": "teetering"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fluctuating"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ambivalent"}, {"language": "en", "text": "divided"}, {"language": "en", "text": "doubtful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unsure"}, {"language": "en", "text": "uncertain"}, {"language": "en", "text": "in two minds"}, {"language": "en", "text": "undecided"}, {"language": "en", "text": "indefinite"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unresolved"}, {"language": "en", "text": "undetermined"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "vacillate", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0015807.001"}, {"entry_id": "vacillating", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0015808.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "vacillate"}], "type": "headword", "word": "vacillate"}], "word": "vacillate"}
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