Term: circumlocution: an indirect way of expressing something
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: sociolinguist: a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication → 0
Candidate hypernym: raft: a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers → 0
Candidate hypernym: orange juice: bottled or freshly squeezed juice of oranges → 0
Candidate hypernym: fishing eagle: of southeast Europe and central Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: thrashing: a sound defeat → 0
Candidate hypernym: poppet: a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines → 0
Candidate hypernym: kitchen police: an enlisted person who is assigned to assist the cooks → 0
Candidate hypernym: folk poet: a folk writer who composes in verse → 0
Candidate hypernym: catholicos: the ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches → 0
Candidate hypernym: nim: game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table → 0