Term: speech act: the use of language to perform some act
Candidate hypernym: act: something that people do or cause to happen → 1
Candidate hypernym: obligation: a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply → 0
Candidate hypernym: saddle sore: sore on a horseback rider chafed by a saddle → 0
Candidate hypernym: nose flute: a flute that is played by blowing through the nostrils (used in some Asian countries) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hasid: a member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism → 0
Candidate hypernym: lectureship: the post of lecturer → 0
Candidate hypernym: rubefacient: a medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin → 0
Candidate hypernym: quintet: a musical composition for five performers → 0
Candidate hypernym: linguistic performance: (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence) → 0
Candidate hypernym: quintet: a set of five similar things considered as a unit → 0
Candidate hypernym: mumbling: indistinct enunciation → 0