Term: evasion: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
Candidate hypernym: misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood → 1
Candidate hypernym: cockatoo: white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds → 0
Candidate hypernym: frill: (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs → 0
Candidate hypernym: brummie: a native or resident of Birmingham, England → 0
Candidate hypernym: bean counter: an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures → 0
Candidate hypernym: survival: a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment → 0
Candidate hypernym: pinch: a painful or straitened circumstance → 0
Candidate hypernym: lobster stew: diced lobster meat in milk or cream → 0
Candidate hypernym: alpha receptor: receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasoconstriction and relaxation of intestinal muscles and contraction of smooth muscles) → 0
Candidate hypernym: desert iguana: small long-tailed lizard of arid areas of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: extent: the point or degree to which something extends → 0