Term: mendacity: the tendency to be untruthful
Candidate hypernym: untruthfulness: the quality of being untruthful → 1
Candidate hypernym: finance minister: the minister responsible for state finances → 0
Candidate hypernym: honeycreeper: small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar → 0
Candidate hypernym: pointed arch: an arch with a pointed apex; characteristic of Gothic architecture → 0
Candidate hypernym: virginia creeper: common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit → 0
Candidate hypernym: fire brigade: a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires → 0
Candidate hypernym: deviationism: ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) → 0
Candidate hypernym: cutlassfish: long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel → 0
Candidate hypernym: sound bite: a very short speech; usually on radio or television → 0
Candidate hypernym: antibiotic: a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections → 0
Candidate hypernym: alpha globulin: a globulin in blood plasma or serum that is alkaline and has great electrophoretic mobility → 0