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Mental Slip Up

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noun

• a mistake resulting from inattention

• a break or intermission in the occurrence of something

• a failure to maintain a higher state

verb

• pass into a specified state or condition; sink into

• end, at least for a long time

• drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

• go back to bad behavior

• let slip

• for time to move forward

44%9 Passing mental slip-up
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30%13 A fault that exhibits both dip-slip and strike-slip movement
noun

• a geological fault in which one side is above the other

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