Term: escalation: an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy
Candidate hypernym: increase: the act of increasing something → 1
Candidate hypernym: spaghetti sauce: any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta → 0
Candidate hypernym: bachelor of theology: a bachelor's degree in theology → 0
Candidate hypernym: rationalization: (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation → 0
Candidate hypernym: leonurus: genus of stout Old World herbs having flowers in whorls → 0
Candidate hypernym: drumhead: a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum → 0
Candidate hypernym: decomposition: the analysis of a vector field → 0
Candidate hypernym: radio brightness: the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope → 0
Candidate hypernym: red herring: a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color → 0
Candidate hypernym: florest's cineraria: herb derived from Pericallis cruenta and widely cultivated in a variety of profusely flowering forms with florets from white to pink to red or purple or violet or blue → 0
Candidate hypernym: nyssaceae: a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees → 0