The mission's failure to reach the summit was attributed to unexpected weather conditions.
这次任务未能登顶，归因于意外的天气状况。
Novelist Victor Lin argues that ambiguous endings often signal a writer's failure to fully develop their ideas, and that the strongest short stories commit to a clear resolution.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
A profile of an inventor opens by describing her decades of failed prototypes in vivid detail, then spends its remaining sections explaining how those very failures directly informed the design choices behind her eventual successful invention.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
In her commencement address, the astronaut begins with a personal story about a childhood telescope malfunction, using that story to introduce her broader message about persisting through early failures in a scientific career.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “failure”?
C — Lack of success. “failure” means lack of success.
Which word means “lack of success”?
B — failure. “failure” means lack of success.
failure — lack of success. In Chinese: 失败.
failure is pronounced /ˈfeɪljər/.
The mission's failure to reach the summit was attributed to unexpected weather conditions. (这次任务未能登顶，归因于意外的天气状况。)
defeat, miscarriage, shortcoming — all close in meaning to failure (lack of success).
success, triumph — each the opposite of failure (lack of success).
Yes. failure is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
fail(fail)+ure(noun)