Term: ridicule: language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
Candidate hypernym: message: what a communication that is about something is about → 1
Candidate hypernym: nekton: the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales → 0
Candidate hypernym: acathexia: an inability to retain bodily secretions → 0
Candidate hypernym: water shrew: any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams → 0
Candidate hypernym: poleax: a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick → 0
Candidate hypernym: yard: the enclosed land around a house or other building → 0
Candidate hypernym: cover charge: a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink → 0
Candidate hypernym: shrewishness: a nature given to nagging or scolding → 0
Candidate hypernym: electric shock: a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body → 0
Candidate hypernym: extraversion: (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self → 0
Candidate hypernym: scrofula: a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands → 0