Term: contortion: the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)
Candidate hypernym: act: something that people do or cause to happen → 1
Candidate hypernym: headmastership: the position of headmaster → 0
Candidate hypernym: light: any device serving as a source of illumination → 0
Candidate hypernym: staff line: any of the 5 horizontal marks comprising a staff → 0
Candidate hypernym: domino: a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume → 0
Candidate hypernym: re-introduction: a proposal of something previously rejected → 0
Candidate hypernym: flower-of-an-hour: annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: softener: a substance added to another to make it less hard → 0
Candidate hypernym: naphtha: any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents → 0
Candidate hypernym: herring: commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific → 0
Candidate hypernym: california quail: plump chunky bird of coastal California and Oregon → 0