Term: spoiler: a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning
Candidate hypernym: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow → 1
Candidate hypernym: archbishopric: the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop → 0
Candidate hypernym: chain gang: a gang of convicts chained together → 0
Candidate hypernym: tickler: a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done → 0
Candidate hypernym: matchwood: wood suitable for making matchsticks → 0
Candidate hypernym: encephalartos: any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: rabies: an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellow cypress: tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament → 0
Candidate hypernym: decrease: a change downward → 0
Candidate hypernym: caryophylloid dicot family: family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: grade: a relative position or degree of value in a graded group → 0