Term: pragmatics: the study of language use
Candidate hypernym: linguistics: the scientific study of language → 1
Candidate hypernym: moot court: a mock court where law students argue hypothetical cases → 0
Candidate hypernym: rhagoletis: a genus of Trypetidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: extended order: a military formation for skirmishing; as widely separated as the tactical situation permits → 0
Candidate hypernym: tradeoff: an exchange that occurs as a compromise → 0
Candidate hypernym: roundup: the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police → 0
Candidate hypernym: size constancy: the tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye) → 0
Candidate hypernym: conditioned stimulus: the stimulus that is the occasion for a conditioned response → 0
Candidate hypernym: fruit bar: cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars → 0
Candidate hypernym: resinoid: a plastic containing resins → 0
Candidate hypernym: disapproval: the expression of disapproval → 0