Which term describes "Something neglected or left undone; for example, not feeding your children"?

• A. Act
• B. Omission
• C. Possess
• D. Constructive possession

Answer: (B)

Omission is the failure to perform a required or expected action. In everyday language and law, an omission describes something neglected or left undone, like not feeding your children. The harm comes from not acting when there was a duty to do so, which is exactly what the example illustrates. The other terms don’t fit because an act means doing something, possession means having ownership or control of something, and constructive possession is a legal idea about having control without physical possession. So omission best captures the idea of neglect or leaving something undone.