What's the difference between goo and vacillate?

Goo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 64 patients who remained at risk for GOO are the subject of this report.
  • (2) This review was undertaken to determine whether there are specific factors which predict the development of gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) in patients with pancreatic carcinoma.
  • (3) Twenty-three percent of the 17 patients with GOO complicating CGD described in the literature were found to present with GOO before any other clinical manifestations of CGD.
  • (4) "'It was all whirlwind, heat and flash'," he adds, quoting a line from Sonic Youth's Goo sleeve.
  • (5) You can structure your sweet eating so that every mouthful contains cloying pink goo.
  • (6) We stepped back into the cab and he offered me the container of thick herbal goo, with an enamel straw.
  • (7) Ang, a thoughtful man though prone to the occasional attack of the giggles, usually brought on by Goo Kha Tauko is our guide.
  • (8) 8.49pm BST Goo is being piped in zigzag patterns which can only mean we're on the final straight.
  • (9) The team at Rochester discovered that the presence of the "goo" enabled a gene identified in an earlier study to activate, causing cancer cells effectively to self-destruct and tumours never to form.
  • (10) After supper we play cards – Shithead, Goo Kha Tauko in Nepali – with the Sherpas until it's too cold not to be zipped up in a down sleeping bag.
  • (11) The indie games scene grew; fostered by the inclusion of titles like Braid and World of Goo on mainstream consoles.
  • (12) These data indicate that accurate prediction of subsequent GOO is not possible based on available objective data.
  • (13) It’s as if Young were not some hilarious goo-goo gah-gah pastiche but actually the godfather of a new generational mindset.
  • (14) We will be taking requests throughout the trip, so tell us what you want to hear, and we'll put it up on our daily playlists - in the comments below, or @GuardianTravel , #TwiTrips 2.38pm BST Goo-oo-d mor-n-ing Chicago!
  • (15) Everyone's smiling and lazily stirring sticky goo in their milk pans while enjoying the presenter patter.
  • (16) The goo is a natural by-product of any attempt to grow naked mole rat cells in a Petri dish.
  • (17) The molecular structure of their HMW-HA is many times larger, and they are slower at recycling it, meaning that the hyaluronan "goo" builds up in a unique way, giving the naked mole rat the ability, among other things, as Faulkes says, of "almost turning a full somersault within its own skin".
  • (18) A patient was diagnosed with gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) 17 months after the neonatal diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD).
  • (19) Exploding ammunition such as the Israeli Frag 12 can cause even more fearsome wounds - Amnesty nicknamed it "the hamburger weapon" because it could reduce targets to meat, gristle, testicle, brain and goo.
  • (20) Seven of those patients developed GOO in the postoperative period and were compared with the 57 who did not.

Vacillate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
  • (v. t.) To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Significant associations were found in the relationship of suicide potential to verbal attack by spouse (p = .03), vacillation in the last two weeks (p = .02), and vacillation since the first serious discussion of divorce (p = .02).
  • (2) On reversed sequences they vacillated between reproducing the events as modeled and "correcting" them to canonical order.
  • (3) Culture conditions may provide an environment that permits proliferating glial cells to vacillate in their selection of a specific lineage.
  • (4) Trump had criticised Obama for vacillation and weakness.
  • (5) Relations between the White House and Congress have vacillated between close coordination one moment and leaving the other in the dark the next.
  • (6) Traditionally, NGOs vacillate between guilt and hope in their communications.
  • (7) Stuck between the cultist Friends of Radio 3 and Global Radio’s sprightly three-times-the-size Classic FM, the network vacillates between populist copying and public service broadcasting stodge.
  • (8) When first confronted by Arab political revolutions, Britain vacillated, reluctant to abandon useful and grubby friendship with corrupt regimes.
  • (9) Later she acquiesced in Ronald Reagan's decision to bomb Gaddafi, and famously told George Bush senior not to go wobbly on her as he vacillated over ousting Saddam's forces, which had invaded Kuwait.
  • (10) Chancellor George Osborne has made it even harder for small businesses to compete against multinationals by cutting the corporate tax rate, and presided over a collapse in business investment, particularly in the hugely promising 'green sector', which has suffered hugely from the government's inept vacillating on energy policy.
  • (11) He isn't, as Miliband is accused of being, weak, vacillating, unadventurous and academic.
  • (12) Much of his work in the last half of his life, and much of his continuing happiness, was inspired by Penny the second, whose enormous strengths of decency and determination creatively challenged his own vacillation and reluctance to make moral judgments.
  • (13) As one works through the stressful event, the victim vacillates between intrusion and avoidance, with the magnitude of those oscillations being much stronger at first.
  • (14) Major procedures included object permanence, vacillation, memory for locations and pictures, and reaction to unfamiliar adults and to separation.
  • (15) In Study 2, conducted four-months after Study 1, stable pairs (20 maintained mutual, MM) and vacillating ones (six growing mutual, GM; 11 decayed mutual, DM) were selected.
  • (16) Mitt Romney has expressed qualified concern about climate change over the years, and then vacillated about how much of it is human-caused and whether we should try to do anything about it.
  • (17) In the space of just a few weeks Moscow has been making the weather on the crisis – by seizing the initiative where the US and others have vacillated and failed.
  • (18) The cast of The Five vacillated between feigned solemnity and jocular NFL pregame oafishness.
  • (19) Most patients showed little denial throughout the period of observation, but more vulnerable patients tended to vacillate between denial and acceptance.
  • (20) Gerwig played the vacillating temptress in Hannah Takes the Stairs , the long-distance lover in Nights and Weekends , a jittery scream queen in the Duplass brothers’ Baghead .

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