Term: foil: anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: shading: a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades → 0
Candidate hypernym: sowbelly: salt pork from the belly of a hog carcass → 0
Candidate hypernym: democracy: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them → 0
Candidate hypernym: king's counsel: Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king → 0
Candidate hypernym: cicero: a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em → 0
Candidate hypernym: agreement: the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations → 0
Candidate hypernym: turnoff: something causing antagonism or loss of interest → 0
Candidate hypernym: lycopodiales: lower vascular plants coextensive with the family Lycopodiaceae; in some classifications includes the Selaginellaceae and Isoetaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: performer: an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience → 0
Candidate hypernym: cribbage board: a board with pegs and regularly spaced holes for holding the pegs; used for keeping the score in a game of cribbage → 0