Term: sacrifice: the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
Candidate hypernym: killing: the act of terminating a life → 1
Candidate hypernym: fluoroboride: a salt of fluoroboric acid → 0
Candidate hypernym: draft beer: beer drawn from a keg → 0
Candidate hypernym: elementary education: education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school → 0
Candidate hypernym: arse: vulgar slang for anus → 0
Candidate hypernym: cercopidae: froghoppers or spittlebugs → 0
Candidate hypernym: work: (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force → 0
Candidate hypernym: newt: small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: didelphis: type genus of the family Didelphidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: absorbency: the property of being absorbent → 0
Candidate hypernym: safety lamp: an oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane) → 0