Term: distress: a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
Candidate hypernym: adversity: a state of misfortune or affliction → 1
Candidate hypernym: crown: (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth → 0
Candidate hypernym: nastiness: the quality of being unpleasant → 0
Candidate hypernym: absurdity: a message whose content is at variance with reason → 0
Candidate hypernym: linkage editor: an editor program that creates one module from several by resolving cross-references among the modules → 0
Candidate hypernym: abnormal psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior → 0
Candidate hypernym: tosser: someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward) → 0
Candidate hypernym: ruscaceae: one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted → 0
Candidate hypernym: goalkeeper: the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal → 0
Candidate hypernym: penumbra: a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra → 0
Candidate hypernym: apogamy: (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization → 0