Term: finalist: a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: sign language: language expressed by visible hand gestures
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: actaea: baneberry
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: drymoglossum: epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: cash: prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: cordon: a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: minesweeping: the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: syzygy: the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: depressive: someone suffering psychological depression
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: escape velocity: the minimum velocity needed to escape a gravitational field
Broader: rival: the contestant you hope to defeat | Unrelated: prepositional phrase: a phrase beginning with a preposition