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  • 81oversight — n. 1. Superintendence, control, direction, management, supervision, inspection, charge, care, surveillance. 2. Error, blunder, mistake, slip, trip, lapse, miss, inadvertency, inattention, neglect, omission, fault …

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  • 82preoccupation — n. 1. Prior occupation, previous occupation, earlier possession. 2. Prepossession. 3. Abstraction, inattention, inadvertence, inadvertency, revery, musing, absence, muse, absence of mind, brown study …

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  • 83dereliction — n 1. negligence, negligency, neglect, delinquency, remissness, Obs. indiligence; laxity, slackness, looseness, Fr. laissez aller; slovenliness, sloppiness, shoddiness; carelessness, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness. 2. disregard, omission,… …

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  • 84failing — n 1. failure, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; miscarriage, abortion; no go, vain attempt; fizzle, fiasco, botch, blunder, washout, flash in the pan. 2. shortcoming, fault, imperfection, defect, weakness; frailty, foible, flaw, blemish, infirmity,… …

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  • 85failure — n 1. lack of success, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment, defeat, frustration, inefficacy; mishap, misfortune, mischance; miscarriage, abortion; blunder, error, slip, trip, stumble, faux pas; botch, muff, mess, muddle; fizzle, fiasco, Inf. washout; vain… …

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  • 86inadvertence — n 1. inattention, inattentiveness, inconsiderateness, heedlessness, unmindfulness, disregard, thoughtlessness, want or lack of thought, inadvertency; carelessness, laxity, slackness, looseness; absent mindedness, absence of mind, forgetfulness;… …

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  • 87neglect — v 1. disregard, take no note or notice of, pass over, pretermit; ignore, overlook, look the other way, blink at, wink at, connive at; let [s.t.] ride, gloss over, make light of, shake off; pass by, Inf. give [s.t.] a miss. 2. omit, forget, lose… …

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  • 88oversight — n 1. neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, inattention, lack of attention, inconsideration, inadvertence, inadvertency; disregard, indifference, nonconcern, carelessness, thoughtlessness, heedlessness, unheedfulness; oblivion, forgetfulness,… …

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  • 89preoccupation — n abstraction, raptness, engrossment, engrossing, absorption, absorbing, immersion, immersing; concentration, intensity, pensiveness, musing, preoccupying, fixation, obsession, obsessing, Inf. bag, Sl. hang up; obliviousness, oblivion,… …

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  • 90omission — [n] something forgotten or excluded blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm, cutting out, default, disregard, disregardance, elimination, elision, excluding, exclusion, failing, failure, forgetfulness, gap, hiatus, ignoring,… …

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