Term: hot spot: a place of political unrest and potential violence
Candidate hypernym: geographical area: a demarcated area of the Earth → 1
Candidate hypernym: castration: neutering a male animal by removing the testicles → 0
Candidate hypernym: sea cow: any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: orphan site: a toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup → 0
Candidate hypernym: news program: a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary → 0
Candidate hypernym: equivocation: intentionally vague or ambiguous → 0
Candidate hypernym: tattoo: the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining → 0
Candidate hypernym: rib: any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) → 0
Candidate hypernym: kangaroo mouse: small silky-haired pouched rodent; similar to but smaller than kangaroo rats → 0
Candidate hypernym: telepathy: apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions → 0
Candidate hypernym: criticality: a state of critical urgency → 0