Clever engineering designs often foil attempts to replicate a product, protecting the inventor's original work.
巧妙的设计常常能挫败复制产品的企图，从而保护发明者的原创成果。
Which choice best defines “foil”?
D — To thwart; a contrast that highlights.. “foil” means To thwart; a contrast that highlights..
Which word means “To thwart; a contrast that highlights.”?
A — foil. “foil” means To thwart; a contrast that highlights..
foil — To thwart; a contrast that highlights.. In Chinese: 挫败；衬托.
foil is pronounced //fɔɪl//.
Clever engineering designs often foil attempts to replicate a product, protecting the inventor's original work. (巧妙的设计常常能挫败复制产品的企图，从而保护发明者的原创成果。)
thwart, frustrate, baffle — all close in meaning to foil (To thwart; a contrast that highlights.).
assist, aid — each the opposite of foil (To thwart; a contrast that highlights.).
Yes. foil is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
foil → 阻挠/反衬。