Term: penance: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
Candidate hypernym: sacrament: a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction → 1
Candidate hypernym: volcanic glass: a kind of natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly → 0
Candidate hypernym: smith: someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) → 0
Candidate hypernym: igloo: an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome → 0
Candidate hypernym: oil beetle: any of various beetles that exude an oily substance from the leg joints that deters enemies → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellow squash: any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks → 0
Candidate hypernym: content word: a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned → 0
Candidate hypernym: xylosma: shrub or small tree grown as an ornamental in mild climates for its neat evergreen foliage and fragrant late flowers; native of China → 0
Candidate hypernym: antilepton: the antiparticle of a lepton → 0
Candidate hypernym: green bristlegrass: European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed → 0
Candidate hypernym: regulation time: (sports) the normal prescribed duration of a game → 0