Term: extenuation: a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
Candidate hypernym: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. → 1
Candidate hypernym: economy: frugality in the expenditure of money or resources → 0
Candidate hypernym: gas: a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely → 0
Candidate hypernym: cannibalism: the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind → 0
Candidate hypernym: stampede: a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle) → 0
Candidate hypernym: varicella zoster virus: the member of the herpes virus family that is responsible for chickenpox → 0
Candidate hypernym: arrowroot: white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch → 0
Candidate hypernym: chamaeleontidae: Old World chameleons; in some classifications they are considered a superfamily of Sauria → 0
Candidate hypernym: sharp: a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point → 0
Candidate hypernym: prototherian: primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea → 0
Candidate hypernym: scissors: a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze → 0