If someone is investing money in a person's idea or business idea, they can be referred to as an "investor." Someone on the receiving end of this investment is sometimes referred to as an "investee." Is there a more colloquial or interesting term to refer to the investee? I'd like to find a bet...

Looking for a word (verb or adjective) to describe the process of working on something carefully for a lot of time. Example: I have been working on this project for a lot of time and it's finally done. Here either the phrase working for a lof of time should be replaced with a verb. Or for a...

I couldn't find a synonym because Thesaurus doesn't offer any synonyms: http://www.thesaurus.com/misspelling?term=reprimandable. What's another alternative of the word? Example sentence: The clerk sat across from Mary, a __ action if a manager saw.

There's the word perpendicular when sticking straight up, but is there a word for "sticking up at an angle"? I mean, it's not particularly hard to just say "sticking up at an angle" but I wondered about this when someone just described something as "perpendicular-ish"

I'm looking for a word or phrase to describe two people who would have spent long periods of time together, to the point where they know each other's idiosyncrasies, would have many in-jokes, finish each other's sentences etc.

Not sure what else I can add, looking for a word that describes someone who thinks they are a good person towards others but they actually are not. But not hypocrite or anything, just they really believe they are amazing. kind regards, Vince.