Term: affair: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
Candidate hypernym: sexual relationship: a relationship involving sexual intimacy → 1
Candidate hypernym: sendee: the intended recipient of a message → 0
Candidate hypernym: microspore: smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte → 0
Candidate hypernym: hair-raiser: excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones → 0
Candidate hypernym: nude mouse: a mouse with a genetic defect that prevents them from growing hair and also prevents them from immunologically rejecting human cells and tissues; widely used in preclinical trials → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydroponics: a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients → 0
Candidate hypernym: sketchiness: incompleteness of details → 0
Candidate hypernym: arterial blood gases: measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases → 0
Candidate hypernym: whitefly: minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects → 0
Candidate hypernym: assay: a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc. → 0
Candidate hypernym: postimpressionist: an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism → 0