Term: red herring: any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
Candidate hypernym: act: something that people do or cause to happen → 1
Candidate hypernym: nomination: the act of officially naming a candidate → 0
Candidate hypernym: arnica: any of various rhizomatous usually perennial plants of the genus Arnica → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus mesohippus: a genus of Equidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: ewe: a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana → 0
Candidate hypernym: proteolysis: the hydrolysis of proteins into peptides and amino acids by cleavage of their peptide bonds → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellow birch: tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark → 0
Candidate hypernym: eschatology: the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind → 0
Candidate hypernym: cytomegalovirus: any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems → 0
Candidate hypernym: house-raising: construction by a group of neighbors → 0
Candidate hypernym: ferrimagnetism: a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment → 0