Term: witch-hunt: searching out and harassing dissenters
Candidate hypernym: act: something that people do or cause to happen → 1
Candidate hypernym: federal housing administration: the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages → 0
Candidate hypernym: megaloblast: abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency → 0
Candidate hypernym: drogue parachute: a small parachute that pulls the main parachute from its storage pack → 0
Candidate hypernym: cube: any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone → 0
Candidate hypernym: runner: a trained athlete who competes in foot races → 0
Candidate hypernym: commedia dell'arte: Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters → 0
Candidate hypernym: martial law: the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law → 0
Candidate hypernym: monotone: a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) → 0
Candidate hypernym: togetherness: affectionate closeness → 0
Candidate hypernym: taipan: large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia → 0