Read the sentence from chapter 6 of The Joy of X by Steven Strogatz:
When I first saw where we were going to live, I vacillated between feeling terrified and excited. What does the author NOT communicate to the reader with the use of “vacillated?”
The narrator’s emotions were in conflict.
The narrator had trouble deciding how to feel.
The narrator kept changing her mind about the situation.
The narrator was scared and thrilled at the same time.