Term: irony: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
Candidate hypernym: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense → 1
Candidate hypernym: bengali: a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal → 0
Candidate hypernym: apple of peru: coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry → 0
Candidate hypernym: casework: close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment → 0
Candidate hypernym: touch typing: typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys; typist can read and type at the same time → 0
Candidate hypernym: scuba diver: an underwater diver who uses scuba gear → 0
Candidate hypernym: caesalpinia: small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana → 0
Candidate hypernym: quasar: a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts → 0
Candidate hypernym: carrier pigeon: a homing pigeon used to carry messages → 0
Candidate hypernym: parish: a local church community → 0
Candidate hypernym: spinet: a small and compactly built upright piano → 0