malingering vs dodging

malingering and dodging both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
malingering	Yes	No	No	No
dodging	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dodging is a hypernym of malingering; that is, dodging is a word with a broader meaning than malingering:

malingering: evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated
dodging: nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

Other hypernyms of malingering include escape, evasion.

malingering (noun)	dodging (noun)
evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated	nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
	deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
	a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery