Term: exigency: a pressing or urgent situation
Candidate hypernym: crisis: an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty → 1
Candidate hypernym: concrete: a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water → 0
Candidate hypernym: shorthand: a method of writing rapidly → 0
Candidate hypernym: butcher: a brutal indiscriminate murderer → 0
Candidate hypernym: american angelica tree: small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: electric dipole: a dipole with equal and opposite electric charges → 0
Candidate hypernym: node: any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part → 0
Candidate hypernym: beatitude: one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed) → 0
Candidate hypernym: specialization: (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function → 0
Candidate hypernym: immediate constituent: a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate → 0
Candidate hypernym: whole-word method: teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words → 0