Term: waste of effort: a useless effort
Candidate hypernym: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly → 1
Candidate hypernym: leg: the limb of an animal used for food → 0
Candidate hypernym: reporting weight: a person's body weight (as an athlete's) at the beginning of the season (when first reporting for practice) → 0
Candidate hypernym: packing: the enclosure of something in a package or box → 0
Candidate hypernym: transporter: a long truck for carrying motor vehicles → 0
Candidate hypernym: sprites: atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) → 0
Candidate hypernym: kayak: a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos → 0
Candidate hypernym: seniority: higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service → 0
Candidate hypernym: sucre: the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos → 0
Candidate hypernym: bb: a small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun → 0
Candidate hypernym: callus: (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid → 0