Term: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
Candidate hypernym: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks → 1
Candidate hypernym: iroquois league: a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hymenogastrales: an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes; has a distinct basidiocarp with a fleshy or waxy gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes) → 0
Candidate hypernym: do-si-do: a square-dance figure; two dancers approach each other and circle back to back before returning to their original places → 0
Candidate hypernym: stone crab: large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) → 0
Candidate hypernym: felidae: cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers → 0
Candidate hypernym: crackle: the sharp sound of snapping noises → 0
Candidate hypernym: industrialization: the development of industry on an extensive scale → 0
Candidate hypernym: lubber's hole: hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds → 0
Candidate hypernym: familiarity: close or warm friendship → 0
Candidate hypernym: dullness: the quality of lacking interestingness → 0