Term: ransom: payment for the release of someone
Candidate hypernym: payment: the act of paying money → 1
Candidate hypernym: mother-of-pearl: the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell → 0
Candidate hypernym: cercocebus: mangabeys → 0
Candidate hypernym: atrial artery: the branch of the coronary artery that supplies the muscles of the atria → 0
Candidate hypernym: grade: a degree of ablaut → 0
Candidate hypernym: downiness: a light softness → 0
Candidate hypernym: black rat: common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide → 0
Candidate hypernym: background: a person's social heritage: previous experience or training → 0
Candidate hypernym: devon: red dual-purpose cattle of English origin → 0
Candidate hypernym: slip: an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall → 0
Candidate hypernym: avulsion: an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another → 0