Term: escape mechanism: a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities
Candidate hypernym: evasion: nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do → 1
Candidate hypernym: hawthorn: a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus → 0
Candidate hypernym: alluvial soil: a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds → 0
Candidate hypernym: blockbuster: an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) → 0
Candidate hypernym: medical bill: statement of charges for medical services → 0
Candidate hypernym: wiper: contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet → 0
Candidate hypernym: tomorrow: the near future → 0
Candidate hypernym: alidade: surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles → 0
Candidate hypernym: writing: the activity of putting something in written form → 0
Candidate hypernym: eightpenny nail: a nail 2.5 inches long → 0
Candidate hypernym: zealot: a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first century who fought to the death against the Romans and who killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans → 0