Term: ordeal: a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: ethmoidal artery: a branch of the ophthalmic artery supplying structures in and around the nasal capsule → 0
Candidate hypernym: dip: (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon → 0
Candidate hypernym: human nature: the shared psychological attributes of humankind that are assumed to be shared by all human beings → 0
Candidate hypernym: earthwork: an earthen rampart → 0
Candidate hypernym: honeypot: South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes → 0
Candidate hypernym: wood duck: showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: flowering quince: Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or red blossoms → 0
Candidate hypernym: control circuit: a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input → 0
Candidate hypernym: experiment: the testing of an idea → 0
Candidate hypernym: carangidae: large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas → 0