Term: recitative: a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech
Candidate hypernym: passage: a short section of a musical composition → 1
Candidate hypernym: heuristic: a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem → 0
Candidate hypernym: economist: an expert in the science of economics → 0
Candidate hypernym: isolation: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it → 0
Candidate hypernym: boiling point: the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level → 0
Candidate hypernym: head: the front of a military formation or procession → 0
Candidate hypernym: banana boat: a ship designed to transport bananas → 0
Candidate hypernym: wrongdoer: a person who transgresses moral or civil law → 0
Candidate hypernym: brie: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert → 0
Candidate hypernym: shillelagh: a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) → 0
Candidate hypernym: keratoconus: abnormal cone-shaped protrusion of the cornea of the eye; can be treated by epikeratophakia → 0