Term: insufficiency: lack of an adequate quantity or number
Candidate hypernym: amount: the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion → 1
Candidate hypernym: ribose: a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid → 0
Candidate hypernym: samaritan: a member of the people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times → 0
Candidate hypernym: cyanic acid: a colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide → 0
Candidate hypernym: interior monologue: a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue → 0
Candidate hypernym: polygene: a gene that by itself has little effect on the phenotype but which can act together with others to produce observable variations → 0
Candidate hypernym: bear grass: yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: failure: an unexpected omission → 0
Candidate hypernym: som: the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan → 0
Candidate hypernym: atlantic spiny dogfish: destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of America and Europe; widely used in anatomy classes → 0
Candidate hypernym: conceit: a witty or ingenious turn of phrase → 0