Akademik

prevaricate
v.intr.
1 speak or act evasively or misleadingly.
2 quibble, equivocate.
Usage:
Often confused with procrastinate.
Derivatives:
prevarication n. prevaricator n.
Etymology: L praevaricari walk crookedly, practise collusion, in eccl.L transgress (as PRAE-, varicari straddle f. varus bent, knock-kneed)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.