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Having a smooth surface, as if polished.

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vacillate

Part of Speech: verb transitive

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1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.

2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.

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His convictions were absolute; when he believed in the exact truth of a thing, he did not vacillate, he did not go back and discuss it; but if his belief faltered, then he changed his opinion radically and went ahead stating the contrary of his previous statements, without recollecting his abandoned ideas. - "CÃ¦sar or Nothing", PÃo Baroja Baroja.
She might vacillate and doubt,- she seemed to do so now,- but questionings, retreats, advances, refusals, were for women. - "The Mayor of Warwick", Herbert M. Hopkins.

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