Term: ordeal: a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: ethmoidal artery: a branch of the ophthalmic artery supplying structures in and around the nasal capsule
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: dip: (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: human nature: the shared psychological attributes of humankind that are assumed to be shared by all human beings
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: earthwork: an earthen rampart
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: honeypot: South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: wood duck: showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: flowering quince: Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or red blossoms
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: control circuit: a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: experiment: the testing of an idea
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: carangidae: large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas