[v] avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
skulk
abandon, cut, dodge, dog it, duck, duck duty, get out of, goldbrick, goof off, jump, leave, leave loose ends, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, miss, not pull fair, omit, pass over, pass up, pretermit, procrastinate, shirk, skip, skulk,