Term: flattery: excessive or insincere praise
Candidate hypernym: compliment: a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration → 1
Candidate hypernym: bubo: a genus of Strigidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: brown bat: any of numerous medium to small insectivorous bats found worldwide in caves and trees and buildings → 0
Candidate hypernym: roadman: a workman who is employed to repair roads → 0
Candidate hypernym: main clause: a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence → 0
Candidate hypernym: triclinium: a dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides) → 0
Candidate hypernym: soil horizon: a layer in a soil profile → 0
Candidate hypernym: scammony: twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin → 0
Candidate hypernym: blank: a piece of material ready to be made into something → 0
Candidate hypernym: mettlesomeness: courageous high-spiritedness → 0
Candidate hypernym: suction cup: a cup-shaped device (made of rubber, glass, or plastic) that produces a partial vacuum; used to adhere or draw something to a surface → 0