Term: declamation: recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
Candidate hypernym: recitation: a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance → 1
Candidate hypernym: plumb level: a carpenter's level with a plumb line at right angles to it → 0
Candidate hypernym: breeding ground: a place where animals breed → 0
Candidate hypernym: shrew: small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles → 0
Candidate hypernym: catsup: thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes → 0
Candidate hypernym: extortion: unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority) → 0
Candidate hypernym: cholecystitis: inflammation of the gall bladder → 0
Candidate hypernym: pit: a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) → 0
Candidate hypernym: romanticism: a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization → 0
Candidate hypernym: levee: a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) → 0
Candidate hypernym: wattle: a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards → 0