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fits and starts
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fits and starts
ague, arrhythmia, brokenness, bumpiness, capriciousness, chattering, choppiness, chorea, cold shivers, desultoriness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, eccentricity, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fluctuation, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, joltiness, nonuniformity, palsy, patchiness, quaking, quavering, quivering, roughness, shakes, shaking, shivering, shivers, shuddering, spasms, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, succussion, trembling, tremulousness, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variability, vibration, whimsicality, wobbleFor further exploring for "fits and starts" in Webster Dictionary Online