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