Term: devil's advocate: someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument
Candidate hypernym: debater: someone who engages in debate → 1
Candidate hypernym: benzene: a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly inflammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: saint: a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization → 0
Candidate hypernym: aalii: a small Hawaiian tree with hard dark wood → 0
Candidate hypernym: dry-bulb thermometer: an ordinary thermometer with a dry bulb; used to measure the air temperature → 0
Candidate hypernym: immobilization: fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing → 0
Candidate hypernym: food web: (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains → 0
Candidate hypernym: epinephelus: genus of groupers or sea bass → 0
Candidate hypernym: inventory control: supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply → 0
Candidate hypernym: schlockmeister: (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise → 0
Candidate hypernym: apparition: the appearance of a ghostlike figure → 0