Term: kickoff: a start given to contestants
Candidate hypernym: start: the beginning of anything → 1
Candidate hypernym: downturn: a worsening of business or economic activity → 0
Candidate hypernym: sculler: someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) → 0
Candidate hypernym: saxicola: Old World chats → 0
Candidate hypernym: prostitution: offering sexual intercourse for pay → 0
Candidate hypernym: cub: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) → 0
Candidate hypernym: draft board: a board to select personnel for involuntary military service → 0
Candidate hypernym: stonewort: any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits → 0
Candidate hypernym: bunt: fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores → 0
Candidate hypernym: hake: any of several marine food fishes related to cod → 0
Candidate hypernym: rack: an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims → 0