Term: backsliding: a failure to maintain a higher state
Candidate hypernym: failure: an act that fails → 1
Candidate hypernym: misogamist: a person who hates marriage → 0
Candidate hypernym: exoskeleton: the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs → 0
Candidate hypernym: exactness: the quality of being exact → 0
Candidate hypernym: ticket: a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment) → 0
Candidate hypernym: coding system: a system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages → 0
Candidate hypernym: taoism: philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events → 0
Candidate hypernym: piping plover: small plover of eastern North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: special interest: an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor → 0
Candidate hypernym: high-muck-a-muck: an arrogant or conceited person of importance → 0
Candidate hypernym: bolognese pasta sauce: sauce for pasta; contains mushrooms and ham and chopped vegetables and beef and tomato paste → 0