Term: sycophant: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
Candidate hypernym: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow → 1
Candidate hypernym: shiism: the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs → 0
Candidate hypernym: helplessness: the state of needing help from something → 0
Candidate hypernym: arthralgia: pain in a joint or joints → 0
Candidate hypernym: flicker: North American woodpecker → 0
Candidate hypernym: landing: the act of coming to land after a voyage → 0
Candidate hypernym: loiterer: someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place → 0
Candidate hypernym: treaty port: a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty → 0
Candidate hypernym: small stuff: any light rope used on shipboard → 0
Candidate hypernym: fair catch: (American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled → 0
Candidate hypernym: telecommunication: (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance → 0