Term: hostage: a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
Candidate hypernym: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow → 1
Candidate hypernym: suite: a matching set of furniture → 0
Candidate hypernym: dolphin oil: an unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant → 0
Candidate hypernym: disembarrassment: something that extricates you from embarrassment → 0
Candidate hypernym: national oceanic and atmospheric administration: an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather → 0
Candidate hypernym: service industry: an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects → 0
Candidate hypernym: mephobarbital: a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy → 0
Candidate hypernym: cold wave: a wave of unusually cold weather → 0
Candidate hypernym: lubricating system: mechanical system of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings → 0
Candidate hypernym: episcopalian: a member of the Episcopal church → 0
Candidate hypernym: unruliness: the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline → 0