Term: affirmative action: a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities
Candidate hypernym: social action: a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) → 1
Candidate hypernym: spaghetti squash: squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti → 0
Candidate hypernym: dogsbody: a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do → 0
Candidate hypernym: challenge: a demanding or stimulating situation → 0
Candidate hypernym: michelson-morley experiment: a celebrated experiment conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley; their failure to detect any influence of the earth's motion on the velocity of light was the starting point for Einstein's theory of relativity → 0
Candidate hypernym: wine cask: a barrel that holds wine → 0
Candidate hypernym: watermelon begonia: grown as a houseplant for its silvery striped fleshy foliage; South America → 0
Candidate hypernym: euclid's fifth axiom: only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to another line → 0
Candidate hypernym: flock: a church congregation guided by a pastor → 0
Candidate hypernym: brass knucks: a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand → 0
Candidate hypernym: bran muffin: muffin containing bran → 0