Term: extenuation: to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
Candidate hypernym: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something → 1
Candidate hypernym: agreeableness: pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions → 0
Candidate hypernym: choroid: a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera; a dark pigmentation minimizes the scattering of light inside the eye → 0
Candidate hypernym: lantern jaw: a long thin lower jaw → 0
Candidate hypernym: work in progress: a piece of work that is not yet finished → 0
Candidate hypernym: peridinian: flagellate with a thick test composed of plates → 0
Candidate hypernym: ladies' room: a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building → 0
Candidate hypernym: brake: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: hatchel: a comb for separating flax fibers → 0
Candidate hypernym: sass: an impudent or insolent rejoinder → 0
Candidate hypernym: ragpicker: an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood → 0