| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move back and forth |
| Synonyms: | alternate, fluctuate, rock, sway, teeter, teeter-totter, vacillate, waver |
| Main Entry: | bob |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bounce up and down |
| Synonyms: | bow, duck, genuflect, hop, jerk, jounce, leap, nod, oscillate, quaver, quiver, ricochet, seesaw, skip, waggle, weave, wobble |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trade |
| Synonyms: | alternate, bandy, bargain, barter, buy and sell, cash in, castle, change, change hands, commute, contact with, convert into, correspond, deal in, displace, flip-flop, give and take, go over to, hook up, horse trade, interchange, invert, link up, market, network, pass to, pay back, rearrange, reciprocate, replace, return the compliment, reverse, revise, seesaw, shift, shuffle, shuttle, substitute, swap, swap horses, switch, traffic, transact, transfer, transpose, truck, turn the tables |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
| Main Entry: | fluctuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | vacillate, change |
| Synonyms: | alter, alternate, be undecided, blow hot and cold, ebb and flow, flutter, go up and down, hem and haw, hesitate, oscillate, rise and fall, seesaw, shift, swing, undulate, vary, veer, vibrate, wave, waver, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | hold, persist, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | hesitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wait; be uncertain |
| Synonyms: | alternate, balance, balk, be irresolute, be reluctant, be unwilling, blow hot and cold, dally, debate, defer, delay, demur, dillydally, dither, doubt, equivocate, falter, flounder, fluctuate, fumble, hang back, hang*, hedge, hem and haw, hold back, hold off, hover, linger, oscillate, pause, ponder, pull back, pussyfoot, scruple, seesaw, shift, shrink, shy away, sit on fence, stammer, stop, straddle, stumble, stutter, swerve, tergiversate, think about, think twice, vacillate, waffle, waver, weigh |
| Antonyms: | attack, carry on, continue, go, go ahead, persevere, resolve |
| Main Entry: | lurch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move toward with jerk |
| Synonyms: | blunder, bumble, careen, dodge, duck, falter, flounder, heave, jerk, lean, list, move to the side, pitch, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, slide, slip, stagger, stumble, sway, swing, teeter, tilt, toss, totter, wallow, weave, wobble, yaw |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
| Main Entry: | oscillate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change back and forth |
| Synonyms: | be unsteady, dangle, fishtail, flicker, fluctuate, librate, lurch, palpitate, pendulate, pitch, pivot, reel, ripple, rock, roll, seesaw, stagger, sway, swing, switch, swivel, teeter, teeter-totter, thrash, toss, totter, undulate, vacillate, vary, vibrate, waddle, wag, waggle, waltz, wave, waver, whirl, wiggle, wobble |
| Notes: | oscillate means to be undecided about something or regularly swing from side to side, while osculate means to kiss or to come together - in mathematics it means to have three or more points coincident with |
| Antonyms: | remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | pitch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dive, roll |
| Synonyms: | ascend, bend, bicker, careen, descend, dip, drive, drop, fall, flounder, go down, heave, lean, lunge, lurch, plunge, rise, rock, seesaw, slope, slump, stagger, tilt, topple, toss, tumble, vault, wallow, welter, yaw |
| Notes: | to put up a tent is to pitch it; to take down a tent is to strike it pitch is movement up and down and yaw is movement side to side on a ship, airplane, or other conveyance |
| Main Entry: | teeter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wobble back and forth |
| Synonyms: | balance, dangle, falter, flutter, lurch, pivot, quiver, reel, rock, seesaw, stagger, stammer, stumble, sway, teeter-totter, topple, totter, tremble, tremble precariously, waver, weave, wiggle |
| Antonyms: | stabilize, steady |