Term: merit system: the system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability
Candidate hypernym: cognition: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning → 1
Candidate hypernym: logarithm: the exponent required to produce a given number → 0
Candidate hypernym: ace of clubs: the ace in the club suit → 0
Candidate hypernym: naught: complete failure → 0
Candidate hypernym: undercut: a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall → 0
Candidate hypernym: mattole: a member of the Athapaskan people living in northwestern California → 0
Candidate hypernym: zygomycota: division of fungi having sexually produced zygospores → 0
Candidate hypernym: vaccine: immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies → 0
Candidate hypernym: tanoan: a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: thermidor: eleventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (July and August); the month of heat → 0
Candidate hypernym: rusher: someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory → 0