Term: approach: a close approximation
Candidate hypernym: quality: an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; --Shakespeare → 1
Candidate hypernym: midsummer eve: the night before Midsummer Day → 0
Candidate hypernym: makeshift: something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency → 0
Candidate hypernym: countercheck: a check that restrains another check → 0
Candidate hypernym: iridoprocne: a genus of Hirundinidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: calabash: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd → 0
Candidate hypernym: homesickness: a longing to return home → 0
Candidate hypernym: banded sand snake: a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes → 0
Candidate hypernym: localism: a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality → 0
Candidate hypernym: order book: a book in which customers' orders are entered; usually makes multiple copies of the order → 0
Candidate hypernym: blue chip: a common stock of a nationally known company whose value and dividends are reliable; typically have high price and low yield → 0