Term: near thing: something that barely avoids failure or disaster
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: shipping fever: a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: polyborus: a genus of Falconidae
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: near-death experience: the experience of being close to death but surviving
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: source of illumination: any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: wykehamist: a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: scissors: a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: acuity: sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: toothbrush: small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: proscenium: the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
Broader: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Unrelated: rudd: European freshwater fish resembling the roach