Term: descant: a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: opalescence: the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: barnburner: someone who burns down a barn
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: feeblemindedness: severe mental deficiency
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: voluptuary: a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: unmarried woman: a woman who is not married
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: kishke: (Judaism) roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: steel production: making steel from pig iron
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: due process: (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: sigh: a sound like a person sighing
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: blacksmith: a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil