Term: commonwealth of independent states: an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
Candidate hypernym: world organization: an international alliance involving many different countries → 1
Candidate hypernym: erosion: condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind → 0
Candidate hypernym: ovary: the organ that bears the ovules of a flower → 0
Candidate hypernym: sophistication: being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject → 0
Candidate hypernym: collegian: a student (or former student) at a college or university → 0
Candidate hypernym: suckling: feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast → 0
Candidate hypernym: punch line: the point of a joke or humorous story → 0
Candidate hypernym: backhand drive: a hard straight return made on the backhand side → 0
Candidate hypernym: gold leaf: a very thin form of gold foil → 0
Candidate hypernym: anaphor: a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent → 0
Candidate hypernym: piezometer: a measuring instrument for measuring high pressures → 0