Term: secretary of veterans affairs: the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Candidate hypernym: secretary: a person who is head of an administrative department of government → 1
Candidate hypernym: performance bond: a bond given to protect the recipient against loss in case the terms of a contract are not filled; a surety company assumes liability for nonperformance → 0
Candidate hypernym: lateral thinking: a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on → 0
Candidate hypernym: challenge: questioning a statement and demanding an explanation → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypoesthesia: impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity → 0
Candidate hypernym: fox: the Algonquian language of the Fox → 0
Candidate hypernym: blackmailer: a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them → 0
Candidate hypernym: sonora: ground snakes → 0
Candidate hypernym: bedpost: any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead → 0
Candidate hypernym: curbstone: a paving stone forming part of a curb → 0
Candidate hypernym: magnetic resonance imaging: the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images → 0