Term: descent: the act of changing your location in a downward direction
Candidate hypernym: action: something done (usually as opposed to something said) → 1
Candidate hypernym: contour: a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure → 0
Candidate hypernym: connection: (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship) → 0
Candidate hypernym: fabian society: an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism → 0
Candidate hypernym: bowdlerization: the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent → 0
Candidate hypernym: miles gloriosus: a braggart soldier (a stock figure in comedy) → 0
Candidate hypernym: lettuce: leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa → 0
Candidate hypernym: biogenesis: the production of living organisms from other living organisms → 0
Candidate hypernym: credibility: the quality of being believable or trustworthy → 0
Candidate hypernym: benzoic acid: a white crystalline solid occurring in many resins → 0
Candidate hypernym: diving duck: any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food → 0