Term: oxymoron: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
Candidate hypernym: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense → 1
Candidate hypernym: sun deck: an unroofed deck → 0
Candidate hypernym: institute: an association organized to promote art or science or education → 0
Candidate hypernym: kingfish: any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast → 0
Candidate hypernym: house: play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults → 0
Candidate hypernym: show bill: a poster advertising a show or play → 0
Candidate hypernym: australian cockroach: widely distributed in warm countries → 0
Candidate hypernym: white pelican: large American pelican; white with black wing feathers → 0
Candidate hypernym: stimulation: the act of arousing an organism to action → 0
Candidate hypernym: adiabatic process: (thermodynamics) any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat → 0
Candidate hypernym: fairway: a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement → 0