I am looking for another word or idiomatic phrase for "monument" that would not connote memorialization, but would connote that it is functions as a symbolic replacement for what it represents, more specifically, a demonstration of some future (or empty) promise. E.g. In 1930s, Stalin built in...

According to the OED, to monetize is to Convert or adapt (a society, economy, etc.) to trade based on the exchange of money. There are similar conceptualisations, like gentrify, gamify, and so on, which refer to process of conversion of something into something else. Is there an equivalent...

I'm looking for a word that is the counter part to "controller". So far, the closest I can think of is "controllee", but that means something else. Any ideas?

I had a conversation with a friend to describe how my divorced parents raised my brother and I: "My mom just had kids; my father knew he was raising future adults and took care in his instruction." I am looking for a single word to describe my father's view of raising children, i.e., with fores...

I was wondering if there's a term for a person feeling an unusual drive to be productive, as well as for the feeling itself. Some example sentences could be: I just drank four cups of coffee, I'm _____, bring it on! Johnny is really excited to start working here. He arrived early and w...

So, basically what I want is a word for using power in good way. Like opposite for 'abusing power'. Is there a word for that?

As the question says, I'm looking for a word similar to, but not quite the same in meaning as, "polymath". A polymath tends to carry a sense of either being a generalist (doesn't imply any sense of specificity), or genus (not relevant), or ideal/rennaisance person (not useful). Portrait of a pe...

That system involves either actual or ----- discrimination. That system involves discrimination in actual or ----- terms. What I want to say is that the system might make discrimination in the actual conditions that hold now or make discrimination in close possible conditions. A tech...

I think there is a word that exists, though it won't quite come to me, that describes the life of someone who purposely leads a sparse existence, materialistically, and has few, if any, possessions. The only word that comes to me is "monastic," but that's not quite right, and I'm thinking there ...

It's there a single word for a person who doesn't want to disagree with anyone and who just wants to go with the flow?

In mathematics, a and b are proportional if their ratio, a/b is constant (DEFINITION 1). In common language, proportional is often used to mean something more like "when a goes up, b also goes up (and vice versa)" (DEFINITION 2). I'm looking for a word other than "proportional" which matches DE...