Term: raison d'etre: the purpose that justifies a thing's existence
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: geneticist: a biologist who specializes in genetics → 0
Candidate hypernym: wooden spoon: a booby prize consisting of a spoon made of wood → 0
Candidate hypernym: words: language that is spoken or written → 0
Candidate hypernym: pleochroism: the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions → 0
Candidate hypernym: sheeting: fabric from which bed sheets are made → 0
Candidate hypernym: choir: the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave → 0
Candidate hypernym: cellulosic: a plastic made from cellulose (or a derivative of cellulose) → 0
Candidate hypernym: study: a state of deep mental absorption → 0
Candidate hypernym: piecework: work paid for according to the quantity produced → 0
Candidate hypernym: twenty-two: the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-one and one → 0