Term: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
Candidate hypernym: defense: the justification for some act or belief → 1
Candidate hypernym: dotard: an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect → 0
Candidate hypernym: hysteresis: the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field → 0
Candidate hypernym: hiv: infection by the human immunodeficiency virus → 0
Candidate hypernym: substrate: a surface on which an organism grows or is attached → 0
Candidate hypernym: black rat: common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide → 0
Candidate hypernym: fractal: (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry → 0
Candidate hypernym: common kingsnake: widespread in United States except northern regions; black or brown with yellow bands → 0
Candidate hypernym: hawaii time: standard time in the 10th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 150th meridian west; used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian Islands → 0
Candidate hypernym: south southwest: the compass point midway between south and southwest → 0
Candidate hypernym: protactinium: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead → 0