| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move back and forth |
| Synonyms: | alternate, fluctuate, rock, sway, teeter, teeter-totter, vacillate, waver |
| Main Entry: | shilly-shally |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | procrastinate |
| Synonyms: | be irresolute, blow hot and cold, dally, dawdle, dodge, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, stall, trifle, vacillate, waver |
| Main Entry: | flitter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flutter |
| Synonyms: | dart, flicker, flit, flop, fly, ripple, skim, swoop, waggle, wave, waver, zip |
| Main Entry: | misdoubt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have one's doubts, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, question, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder, wonder at |
| Main Entry: | refract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend |
| Synonyms: | angle, angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook*, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
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| Concept: | Recoil. |
| Category: | 3. Motion conjoined with force |
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-nouns
recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce, rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup; springing back; elasticity; reflexion, reflex, reflux; reverberation (resonance); rebuff, repulse; return., ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist.
-verbs
recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet.
-adjectives
recoiling; refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant, reactionary; retroactive.
-adverbs
on the rebound, on the recoil.
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