Term: slander: words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
Candidate hypernym: defamation: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions → 1
Candidate hypernym: swarm: a group of many things in the air or on the ground → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypostasis: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene → 0
Candidate hypernym: nuclear resonance: the resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray → 0
Candidate hypernym: misalliance: an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) → 0
Candidate hypernym: discipline: the act of punishing → 0
Candidate hypernym: flowering fern: Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds → 0
Candidate hypernym: easter daisy: dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large white-rayed flower heads and bristly achenes; central Canada and United States west to Arizona → 0
Candidate hypernym: superior colliculus: an essential visual center between the retina and the striate cortex → 0
Candidate hypernym: argus: (Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes; was guardian of the heifer Io and was slain by Hermes → 0
Candidate hypernym: flux: the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface → 0