Term: casuistry: argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
Candidate hypernym: higher cognitive process: cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use → 1
Candidate hypernym: dry fly: a fly (fisherman's lure) that skims the surface of the water → 0
Candidate hypernym: reversion: (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) → 0
Candidate hypernym: robin's plantain: common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays → 0
Candidate hypernym: illustration: artwork that helps make something clear or attractive → 0
Candidate hypernym: scanning: the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission → 0
Candidate hypernym: cuban peso: the basic unit of money in Cuba; equal to 100 centavos → 0
Candidate hypernym: carcinoid: a small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin → 0
Candidate hypernym: behalf: as the agent of or on someone's part (usually expressed as  rather than ) → 0
Candidate hypernym: experiment: the testing of an idea → 0
Candidate hypernym: obiter dictum: an incidental remark → 0