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Archaic, crasis, temperament, temper, mind, humor, vein.
2. determination, resolve, resolution; penchant, predisposition, predilection, partiality; prejudice, tendentiousness, bias, preference; affinity, attraction, sympathy, liking, fancy, fondness, affection, love, ardor, fervor, zeal, passion; desire, longing, wishing, hankering, craving, itch, avidity; appetite, appetency, relish, taste; voracity, pruriency, concupiscence, lust.
3. aptitude, gift, genius, talent, faculty, readiness, skill.
procrastinate, v. 1. delay, temporize, Inf. stall, U.S. Cong, filibuster, play for time, gain time, use dilatory tactics, play a waiting game; prolong, protract, retard, slacken, slow down, decelerate; forestall, prevent, stave off, obstruct, block, avoid.
2. defer, put off, postpone, table, shelve, prorogue; adjourn, suspend, respite; waive, put aside, pigeonhole; shunt, push aside, Inf. wait on, let stand, put on ice, put in cold storage, put on a back burner, let hang fire, hold in abeyance, keep in a holding pattern, call a time-out.
3. vacillate, hesitate, waver; wait, tarry, linger, dawdle; dally, dillydally, idle, mark time, tread water; lag, Inf. drag one's feet, Inf. footdrag, poke along; loaf, shirk, Inf. goof off, kill or waste time, Inf. sleep on the job, Brit. Sl. scrimshank.
procrastination, n. 1. delay, postponement, deferment, deferral; adjournment, suspension, abeyance, moratorium, prorogation; dilatoriness, prevention, forestallment, forestalling, Law. laches; obstruction, blockage, blocking, avoidance, evasion; temporiza-tion, play for time, U.S. Cong, filibuster or filibustering; dilatory tactics, waiting game, time-out.
2. vacillation, hesitation; delaying, dawdling, dalliance, dillydallying, idling, Inf. footdragging; shirking, loafing, Inf. sleeping on the job; neglect, laxity, disre-gardance, default, omission.
3. prolongation, protraction, retarding, retardation, shelving, deferring, pigeonholing, waiving; tardiness, lateness, cunctation, slowness.
procrastinator, n. delayer, deferrer, postponer, cunc-tator, temporizer; malingerer, shirker, loafer, Sl. goof-off, Sl. goldbrick, idler, Brit. Sl. scrimshanker, do-nothing, faindant; neglector, ignorer, disregarder; dodger, evader.
procreate, v. 1. beget, engender, generate, create, conceive, father, sire, give birth to, get; breed, propagate, reproduce, spawn.
2. cause, produce, effect, effectuate, make happen, bring about, bring to pass, give rise to, occasion; begin, originate, initiate, sow the seeds of.
procreation, n. 1. generation, engenderment, genesis, siring, fathering, begetting, giving birth to; propa gation, proliferation, multiplication.
2. creation, origination, invention, innovation; formation, formulation, materialization, embodiment; establishment, institution, foundation,
procreative, adj. generative, genetic, genesic, pro-generative, procreant, propagative, reproductive, life-giving; creative, formative,
procreator, n. sire, father, begetter, engenderer; creator, maker, producer, architect,
proctor, n. 1. (in a university or college) monitor, teacher's aide, watcher, overseer, supervisor; deputy, surrogate, delegate; procurator, steward; rector, preceptor.
-v. 2. supervise, monitor, oversee, manage, watch over, attend to.
procurable, adj. obtainable, acquirable, purchasable, available, securable; attainable, reachable, accessible, getatable.
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