Term: benchmark: a standard by which something can be measured or judged
Candidate hypernym: standard: a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated → 1
Candidate hypernym: life peer: a British peer whose title lapses at death → 0
Candidate hypernym: amino: the radical -NH2 → 0
Candidate hypernym: bird's foot: the foot of a bird → 0
Candidate hypernym: shutting: the act of closing something → 0
Candidate hypernym: parka: a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term) → 0
Candidate hypernym: cutlassfish: long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel → 0
Candidate hypernym: brick trowel: a trowel used in masonry → 0
Candidate hypernym: annihilation: destruction by annihilating something → 0
Candidate hypernym: sino-tibetan: the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: trompillo: weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America → 0