Term: repartee: adroitness and cleverness in reply
Candidate hypernym: wit: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter → 1
Candidate hypernym: fastener: a person who fastens or makes fast → 0
Candidate hypernym: derogation: (law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law → 0
Candidate hypernym: zymosis: a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol → 0
Candidate hypernym: gondola car: a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof → 0
Candidate hypernym: bean dip: a dip made of cooked beans → 0
Candidate hypernym: booby: small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both → 0
Candidate hypernym: juxtaposition: a side-by-side position → 0
Candidate hypernym: respectability: honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation → 0
Candidate hypernym: bar magnet: a magnet in the form of a bar with magnetic poles at each end → 0
Candidate hypernym: ray: any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish → 0