Just read your reply caroleoctober about the seller selling out of the Neostar machine (good sign), so yes good job I didn't prevaricate, now that word prevaricate is new to me obviously you and Libby know what it means, I am thinking it obviously means 'I didn't hang about' - A day is not wasted when you learn something new !
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I think the word you want is 'procrastinate' which means putting off something - I know this one because I was always being accused of it when it was time for breathing exercises.
Prevaricate means not telling the truth, something which I have also occasionally been accused of - as in 'the dog ate my homework'.
Just so Jabber - to prevaricate is to evade the truth, mislead or create a false impression.
Sorry, but like lots of words, prevaricate has various meanings in common use:
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Synonims for prevaricate: BEAT AROUND THE BUSH circumlocution digress equivocate gloss over sth GO ALL ROUND THE HOUSES. fly off at a tangent implicit indirect mealy-mouthed mincing obfuscate oblique obscure skirt suggestion TALK ROUND/AROUND sth tiptoe round/around sth/sb underlying veiled
Wiktionary
Verb
prevaricate (third-person singular simple present prevaricates, present participle prevaricating, simple past and past participle prevaricated)
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
(intransitive) To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; TO WAFFLE or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
(intransitive, law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
Ha ha, it's just when someone tells you you're wrong about something and you know you're not, you feel obliged to prove them wrong!! I don't know why, but it seems to happen to me a lot! But no-one ever apologises!
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