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Angliholic Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Leave/procrastinate your Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve

You always leave your Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve.

Hi,

Is it right to replace "leave" in the above with "procrastinate" and "ignore?" Thanks in advance.
  

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Angliholic You always leave your Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve. procrastinate - No. ignore - Yes.

— CalifJim

  • Angliholic You always leave your Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve.
  • procrastinate - No.
  • ignore - Yes.
  • neglect - Yes.
  • Better than ignore .
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AngliholicYou always leave your Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve.
... Is it right to replace "leave" in the above with "procrastinate" and "ignore?"...procrastinate - No.
ignore - Yes.
neglect - Yes. Better than ignore.

To procrastinate is to put things off until later in a general way. You don't procrastinate a specific thing or act
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