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um

Spoken hesitation marker

• uhVocalized hesitation marker
• pauseTemporary cessation of activity
• stallingIntentional delay tactics

disfluency · interjection · vocalization · hesitation · stammering · fumbling · placeholder · hedging · conversation · discourse

pause

Temporary cessation of activity

• uncertaintyState of being unsure
• doubtLack of firm belief
• indecisionFailure to decide

tentativeness · wavering · vacillation · reluctance · second-guessing · dithering · faltering · ambivalence · equivocation · stammering

• Word Suffixesest, ness, less, able, ism
• Scrabble Wordsaa, ax, em, en, et
• Chinese Wordssan, si, qi, ba, ta
• dialect wordsthee, thou, thy, thine, thyself
• speech fillersuh, um, hmm, like, you know
• speech stumblesstutter, stammer, hesitation, pause, um