Term: confirmation: a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: myelomeningocele: a congenital defect of the central nervous system in which a sac containing part of the spinal cord and its meninges protrude through a gap in the vertebral column; frequently accompanied by hydrocephalus and mental retardation → 0
Candidate hypernym: wedding guest: a guest at a wedding → 0
Candidate hypernym: liquefied petroleum gas: hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure → 0
Candidate hypernym: purple clematis: climber of northeastern North America having waxy purplish-blue flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: pachuco: a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes → 0
Candidate hypernym: cascara: dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative → 0
Candidate hypernym: temnospondyli: formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; large Carboniferous and Permian amphibians having vertebrae in which some elements remain separate → 0
Candidate hypernym: mulatto: an offspring of a black and a white parent → 0
Candidate hypernym: probity: complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles → 0
Candidate hypernym: mayapple: North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit → 0