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Lapses
  1. a failure to maintain a higher state
  2. a mistake resulting from inattention
  3. a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"
  4. go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
  5. drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
  6. end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"
  7. pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana"
  8. pass by; "three years elapsed"
  9. let slip; "He lapsed his membership"
Lapsing
  1. a failure to maintain a higher state
  2. go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
  3. drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
  4. end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"
  5. pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana"
  6. pass by; "three years elapsed"
  7. let slip; "He lapsed his membership"
Lapsings
  1. a failure to maintain a higher state
Leanings
  1. the act of deviating from a vertical position
  2. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
  3. a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"
  4. an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
Laying Claim
  1. the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"
  2. the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company''s assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the compan
Lifesaving
  1. saving the lives of drowning persons; "he took a course in lifesaving"
Lifesavings
  1. saving the lives of drowning persons; "he took a course in lifesaving"
Liberation
  1. the act of liberating someone or something
  2. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
  3. the attempt to achieve equal rights or status; "she worked for women's liberation"
Liberations
  1. the act of liberating someone or something
  2. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
  3. the attempt to achieve equal rights or status; "she worked for women's liberation"
Linguistic Performance
  1. (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence)