Term: expletive: a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: yellow-dog contract: a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union → 0
Candidate hypernym: decoupage: art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer → 0
Candidate hypernym: syndrome: a complex of concurrent things → 0
Candidate hypernym: skirl: the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe → 0
Candidate hypernym: lambert: a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter → 0
Candidate hypernym: scriptorium: a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts → 0
Candidate hypernym: valdecoxib: a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Bextra) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract → 0
Candidate hypernym: postlude: a voluntary played at the end of a religious service → 0
Candidate hypernym: aphrodisiac: a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire → 0
Candidate hypernym: madrigalist: a singer of madrigals → 0