Term: scourge: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
Candidate hypernym: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose → 1
Candidate hypernym: fiction: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact → 0
Candidate hypernym: cosmology: the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe → 0
Candidate hypernym: flat: a shallow box in which seedlings are started → 0
Candidate hypernym: freshwater bass: any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) → 0
Candidate hypernym: gentianopsis: genus of fringed gentians; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana → 0
Candidate hypernym: northern dune tansy: lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: heroic verse: a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter → 0
Candidate hypernym: intentionality: expressive of intentions → 0
Candidate hypernym: permutation: the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements → 0
Candidate hypernym: developer: photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film → 0