Term: homily: a sermon on a moral or religious topic
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: certiorari: a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case → 0
Candidate hypernym: tax advantage: an advantage bestowed by legislation that reduces a tax on some preferred activity → 0
Candidate hypernym: vigil: a period of sleeplessness → 0
Candidate hypernym: chinese lantern: a collapsible paper lantern in bright colors; used for decorative purposes → 0
Candidate hypernym: hood: an aggressive and violent young criminal → 0
Candidate hypernym: haymaker: a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying → 0
Candidate hypernym: dissolve: (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out → 0
Candidate hypernym: stapelias asterias: stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas → 0
Candidate hypernym: probable: an applicant likely to be chosen → 0
Candidate hypernym: federal housing administration: the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages → 0