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Mohammad Shaban Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

What does "dispositions vacillate" mean?

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What does "dispositions vacillate" mean?

Nothing is so difficult as to remain faithful. At each step of the way outside influences are brought to bear upon us to make us deviate or retrograde. And if there were only difficulties from without, it would not matter so much; but there are those from within. Our dispositions vacillate. We promise one thing with the best intentions in the world; but when the time comes to keep it, everything is changed–the circumstances, men, ourselves; and what duty demands of us seems so different from what we had foreseen, that we hesitate. Those who will fulfill on a rainy day a promise which they have made on a sunny one, are few and far between.

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Mohammad
  

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Welcome to the Forums, Mohammad! Vacillate means to change back and forth. Disposition is the way we naturally feel about anything.

— Philip

  • Welcome to the Forums, Mohammad!
  • Vacillate means to change back and forth.
  • Disposition is the way we naturally feel about anything.
  • If a person is always nice, we can say that he has a healthy disposition.
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Emotion: shake handsWelcome to the Forums, Mohammad!
Vacillate means to change back and forth. Disposition is the way we na
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Thank you Philip. So the sentence means that the way we naturally feel or do things (disposition) will always change (vacillate) depending on the situation, correct?

Thanks,
Mohammad
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That's how I read it.
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