Term: witch-hunt: searching out and harassing dissenters
Candidate hypernym: practice: a customary way of operation or behavior → 1
Candidate hypernym: white-tailed jackrabbit: largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States; brownish-grey in summer and pale grey in winter; tail nearly always all white → 0
Candidate hypernym: heart: a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it → 0
Candidate hypernym: javelin: a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events → 0
Candidate hypernym: watt: a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm → 0
Candidate hypernym: high wire: a tightrope very high above the ground → 0
Candidate hypernym: plate: the quantity contained in a plate → 0
Candidate hypernym: man of means: a man who is wealthy → 0
Candidate hypernym: upstage: the rear part of the stage → 0
Candidate hypernym: philosopher's stone: hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold → 0
Candidate hypernym: architect: someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) → 0