Dire

I find trying to write my essay is a dire task.

Dire means dreadful, terrible or disastrous.

Etymology:
1560s, from L. dirus "fearful, awful, boding ill," of unknown origin; perhaps from Oscan and Umbrian and perhaps cognate with Gk. deinos, from PIE base *dwei-.

Procrastinate

I am the queen of procrastination!  If I have any work to do, you can be sure I will find at least 5 other things to do first even though they are nowhere near as important...

To procrastinate is to delay or put off til another day.

Etymology:

1540s, from L. procrastinationem "a putting off," noun of action from procrastinare "put off till tomorrow," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + crastinus "belonging to tomorrow," from cras "tomorrow," of unknown origin.

Oleaster

My post tonight was inspired by a text I (almost) sent to my friend... As we were bantering away by SMS my iPhone decided to change my spelling of pleasure to oleaster (pronounced oh-le-AS-ter).  Fortunately, I noticed the autocorrect and changed it back to pleasure.

An oleaster is an ornamental shrub or small tree.

Etymology:
Oleaster is a Latin word derived from the olea meaning olive or olive-tree.

Compunction

Guilt.

What an excellent word. I have no compunction in using it voraciously.

Etymology:

Com-: Latin prefix usually meaning 'with'

Pungere: Latin meaning to prick.

Presumably the figurative early Church writers who coined this phrase hadn't yet been accused of the heinous crimes which they are today accused of; else there's no way they would have coined this phrase.

Brumal

Today is brumal. Is that the correct usage? I'm not entirely sure.

However, I do know that brumal means wintry or freezing and at the moment I am so cold my nose is numb so I thought 'twould be a good word to post :-)

Etymology:
Origin: 1505–15; < L brūmālis of, pertaining to winter. See brume, -al1

Globule

A small spherical body.  

Sometimes shortened to glob, this word came to me when a friend texted me and my response to her was glob as it was an anagram of the word she had sent me.

Etymology:
1660s, from Fr. globule, from L. globulus, dim. of globus “globe”

Asinine

A glorious word meaning extremely/excessively stupid or foolish.

When used in a sentence, "Adam's asinine actions", it sounds so much better than saying, "Adam's extremely stupid actions".

Etymology:
c.1600, "obstinate, stupid," from L. asininus "stupid," lit. "like an ass," from asinus "ass," also "dolt, blockhead" (see ass (1)). The literal sense in English is recorded from 1620s.