Prevaricate vs. Procrastinate — What's the Difference?

Speak or act in an evasive way

To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.

To speak or write evasively.

To postpone or delay needlessly.

To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).

(intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.

(intransitive) To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.

(transitive) To put off; to delay (something).

To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance.

To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

To delay; to be dilatory.

To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.

Postpone doing what one should be doing;

To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

Postpone or delay needlessly;

To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.

Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information