新GRE词汇:vacillate

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编辑点评: 尽管改革后的新gre考试词汇量有所下降,但是新gre考试词汇仍然是非常重要的。以下介绍的主要是新gre词汇vacillate的相关内容,尤其是它的考法。

  改革后的新gre考试词汇量的考察下降20%,但是并不代表词汇在新gre考试中不重要了,新gre考试更加注重实际语言能力的考察了,所以同学们绝对不能放松对词汇的学习,以下是天道小编为大家搜集的有关vacillate的考法。

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 one’s 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(/ decide / settle / adamant /

vacillation < > decisiveness, pertinacity

<> constancy / persistence / impetuosity

新gre考试已经陆陆续续被很多考生体验过,根据ets的考察方向及考生的反应,新gre对单词的考察并没有降低反而还有所提高,因此备考新gre考试词汇仍是迫在眉睫的问题,俗话说:“万丈高楼平地起”只有精确熟练的掌握了词汇,才可能在征服新gre考试的道路上立于不败之地。


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