absolve, free, justify, merit, virtue

blame, mistake, culpability, negligence, flaw, miscommunication, excuses, anomaly, inconsistency, error, klutziness, screwup, misjudgment, ashame, knucklehead, malfunction, shortcoming, stupidity, fluke, scapegoat, problem, carelessness, ineptness, responsibility, breakdowns, coincidence, failings, incompetence, blindspot, misreading, aberration, inconsistence, sloppiness, liability, wronger, pity, causation, gaul, glitch, misspeaks, miscall, gaffe, idiot, failures, oversights, rupture, san andreas fault, fix, fibbing, shinpad, defect, bonehead, misprint, misfortune, subduction, contributory negligence, culprit, blunder, inadvertence, stubbornness, ineptitude, shortsightedness, trouble, faultiness, faultfinding, undoing, tardiness, earthing, misstatement, onus, flagrancy, typo, screw, exaggeration, downfall, saving grace, gutlessness, foible, achilles heel, cravenness, greediness, peeve, disrespect, inattentiveness, farse, immaturity, whiner, liking, apologies, galling, wrongdoing, incompetency, wreckless, babying, allright, longeron, selfishness, arrogance, tone deafness, shafting, inexperience, copout, faults, difficulty, offence, objection, imperfection, offense, demerit, blemish, cause, evil, impediment, vice, drawback, sin, claim, hazard, protection, unworkable, impedance, funding, socialistic, workfare, control, corporative, federative, incentive, nondiscriminatory, payer, welfare, benefit, new, sharing, applicable, bismarckian, called, collectivist

balls-up, ballup, betise, blooper, blot, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bug, bungle, cockup, confounding, confusion, distortion, flub, folly, foolishness, footfault, foul-up, glitch, hole, imbecility, inclined fault, lapse, mess-up, miscalculation, miscue, misdoing, misestimation, misreckoning, mix-up, omission, oversight, renege, revoke, san andreas fault, skip, slip, slipup, smear, smirch, spot, stain, stupidity

., accusation, altogether, at fault, blunder, boob, bug, charge, clear, clear up, common fault, common scold, complacent, contrite, critic, criticise, criticize, dead, denali fault, denali national park, earthquake, excuser, faultless, faultlessly, fault line, footfault, footwall, forfeit, forfeiture, forgiver, geological fault, get the best, glitch, gloss over, goof, gravity fault, grievous, hanging wall, have the best, hole, hush up, immaculate, impeccable, impute, inclined fault, knock, nag, nagger, normal fault, no fault insurance, overcome, overthrust fault, pardoner, pick apart, punished, quake, rebuker, redeeminga, redress, remediation, remedy, reproacher, reprover, reverse fault, sacrifice, san andreas fault, scold, scolder, seism, self-satisfied, sin, sleek over, strike-slip fault, temblor, thrust fault, unassuming, upbraider, wall rock, whitewash

accuse, charge, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, imperfection, imperfectness, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, responsibility, responsibleness, scissure, serve, service, worth

blame, break, defect, demerit, error, fault line, flaw, fracture, geological fault, mistake