Mrs Buckley’s Word of the Week
procrastinate
Any ideas?
If I didn’t procrastinate so much, I could get much
more done.
procrastinate
verb
delay or postpone action; put off doing
something
synonyms:
delay, put off doing something, postpone action, defer action, be
dilatory, use delaying tactics, stall, temporize, play for time, play a
waiting game, dally, drag one's feet/heels,take one's time;
• procrastinatingly, procrastinatively, adverb
• procrastination, noun
• procrastinative, procrastinatory [proh-kras-tuh-nuh-tawr-ee,
-tohr-ee, pruh-] (Show IPA), adjective
• procrastinativeness, noun
• procrastinator, noun
procrastinate
Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task which needs to
be accomplished. It is the practice of doing more pleasurable
things in place of less pleasurable ones, or carrying out less
urgent tasks instead of more urgent ones, thus putting off
impending tasks to a later time.
procrastinate
Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task which needs to be accomplished. It is
the practice of doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, or
carrying out less urgent tasks instead of more urgent ones, thus putting off impending
tasks to a later time.
Discussion:
- When do you procrastinate?
- What do you do instead of the task you are
avoiding?
- Can you think of a specific example?
e.g. Instead of marking essays, Mrs Buckley was
procrastinating and planning her holidays.