Term: sob story: a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy
Candidate hypernym: narrative: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program → 1
Candidate hypernym: triphammer: a massive power hammer; raised by a cam until released to fall under gravity → 0
Candidate hypernym: duck: (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman → 0
Candidate hypernym: megakaryocyte: a large bone marrow cell; regarded as the source of blood platelets → 0
Candidate hypernym: pendant: an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) → 0
Candidate hypernym: wall: (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure → 0
Candidate hypernym: palace: official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign) → 0
Candidate hypernym: unlikelihood: the improbability of a specified outcome → 0
Candidate hypernym: cembra nut: the seed of the Swiss pine → 0
Candidate hypernym: acanthosis nigricans: a skin disease characterized by dark wartlike patches in the body folds; can be benign or malignant → 0
Candidate hypernym: bastille day: a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789 → 0