Term: persecution: the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
Candidate hypernym: maltreatment: cruel or inhumane treatment → 1
Candidate hypernym: camp: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers → 0
Candidate hypernym: pallone: an Italian game similar to tennis → 0
Candidate hypernym: giant ryegrass: stout perennial grass of western North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: hedge sparrow: small brownish European songbird → 0
Candidate hypernym: smoke bush: any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: arvicola: in some classifications considered synonymous with Microtus → 0
Candidate hypernym: tissue typing: a series of diagnostic tests before an organ transplant to determine whether the tissues of a donor and recipient are compatible → 0
Candidate hypernym: redefinition: the act of giving a new definition → 0
Candidate hypernym: hot stuff: the quality of being popular → 0
Candidate hypernym: pneumococcal vaccine: vaccine (trade name Pneumovax) effective against the 23 most common strains of pneumococcus → 0