Term: rationalization: the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
Candidate hypernym: explanation: thought that makes something comprehensible → 1
Candidate hypernym: puller: someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something → 0
Candidate hypernym: irish setter: an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahogany-red coat → 0
Candidate hypernym: aristotelian logic: the syllogistic logic of Aristotle as developed by Boethius in the Middle Ages → 0
Candidate hypernym: rebuttal: the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument → 0
Candidate hypernym: turpentine: obtained from conifers (especially pines) → 0
Candidate hypernym: fiftieth: position 50 in a countable series of things → 0
Candidate hypernym: ground squirrel: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops → 0
Candidate hypernym: total parenteral nutrition: administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes → 0
Candidate hypernym: water violet: featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: teres major: teres muscle that moves the arm and rotates it medially → 0