Term: scandalmongering: spreading malicious gossip
Candidate hypernym: gossiping: a conversation that spreads personal information about other people → 1
Candidate hypernym: hornwort: any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams → 0
Candidate hypernym: peanut: pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms → 0
Candidate hypernym: icebreaker: a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere → 0
Candidate hypernym: closed universe: (cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter → 0
Candidate hypernym: electrum: an alloy of gold and silver → 0
Candidate hypernym: desire: the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state → 0
Candidate hypernym: fedayeen: (plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel → 0
Candidate hypernym: accordion: a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player → 0
Candidate hypernym: necktie: neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front → 0
Candidate hypernym: demonstration: a visual presentation showing how something works → 0