Term: background: information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
Candidate hypernym: information: knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction → 1
Candidate hypernym: ethnic group: people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture → 0
Candidate hypernym: rattan: the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes → 0
Candidate hypernym: laying waste: destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined → 0
Candidate hypernym: lower berth: the lower of two berths → 0
Candidate hypernym: wholeness: a state of robust good health → 0
Candidate hypernym: tap: a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads → 0
Candidate hypernym: broth: liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces → 0
Candidate hypernym: bacteriochlorophyll: a substance in photosensitive bacteria that is related to but different from chlorophyll of higher plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: tuning: (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency → 0
Candidate hypernym: chaja: largest crested screamer; native to southern Brazil and Argentina → 0