ghost

spectre

Phantom

Opera

Pavarotti

dead

Walking

Exercise

Homework

^ Slacking off

*ahem*(this is longer than one word, but is just a clarification):

Two things:
-It is July, so I'm on vacation, which means I have the right to slack off :-)
-Also, I connected homework with exercise on my mind, as in homework assignments there's a number of "exercises" to be accomplished- I'm not in high school anymore though (yay!) but I still make that connection.

As a side note, you used two words :-)

As for the word association now:

Laziness

Procrastination

It's called the "Word Association Game", my choice was not directed to you personally, why you'd take it that way and felt you had to explain yourself... I can't imagine. ?_?


Back on topic:

Diligence

Because you used that arrow thing perhaps. (this one- ^. Normally, when such is used, it means some form of addressing to the other person-at least to my mind). But as you didn't use the symbol the way I misunderstood it, we're fine now(even if you used 2 words).

Anyways:

Labor

Enough!