Term: backsliding: a failure to maintain a higher state
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: misogamist: a person who hates marriage
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: exoskeleton: the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: exactness: the quality of being exact
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: ticket: a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: coding system: a system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: taoism: philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: piping plover: small plover of eastern North America
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: special interest: an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: high-muck-a-muck: an arrogant or conceited person of importance
Broader: failure: an act that fails | Unrelated: bolognese pasta sauce: sauce for pasta; contains mushrooms and ham and chopped vegetables and beef and tomato paste