Term: dictate: a guiding principle
Candidate hypernym: principle: a basic truth or law or assumption → 1
Candidate hypernym: hominoidea: anthropoid apes and human beings → 0
Candidate hypernym: dumbwaiter: a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another → 0
Candidate hypernym: weakness: the condition of being financially weak → 0
Candidate hypernym: psychology: the science of mental life → 0
Candidate hypernym: liver chestnut: a solid dark brown horse → 0
Candidate hypernym: tailor: a person whose occupation is making and altering garments → 0
Candidate hypernym: dwindling: a becoming gradually less → 0
Candidate hypernym: lungfish: air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought → 0
Candidate hypernym: laudator: someone who communicates high praise → 0
Candidate hypernym: parallelism: similarity by virtue of corresponding → 0