If I have someone who overstates something significantly, for example, "There has to be at least a million people here", or "this happens at least 10 times a day", when it is very obvious that this is very significantly exaggerated, I know there is a single word that describes this. Not melodramt...

can anyone give the exact single word for feeling/quality of doing good works for others without having any selfishness.

I'm looking to see if there is a word for someone who acts willfully ignorant of process and procedures to be able to blameshift if things go awry.

I'm asking this question, because I'm reading Robert Sedgewick's python book, and he shows a 10 by 10 table where in each ith row, if there's a star in the jth position, then i is the divisor of j (as he calls it). Example: 2nd row: " * * * * *" first position - no star, because 1 can't be div...

Steven is solely responsible for maintaining the machines at the factory. Fixing problems with these machines is not trivial, but should be relatively quickly understood by most people with adequate experience after some effort. Steven is concerned about his replaceability at the company and is ...

Is there any single word which encompasses the concept or active avoidance of death, specifically through the use of necromancy, reanimation, or other forms of immortality? I do not want to use any derivative of fearing death, thanatophobia, since that is not quite what I'm aiming for. Thanks i...

As in: This can be seen as an instance of safe, politically-correct ____ of feminism. Context: an essay analyzing a piece of popular entertainment in which some female characters does a thing that can be seen as pro-feminist, but the idea was never developed, because it is clearly not the f...

I incorrectly used the word 'collimate' to describe the formation of columns. In reality the word shares no root with column. Is there a word that describes the formation of columns or rows or lines of objects? In short, is there a word for what I thought collimate meant?

Sometime you are attacked with a barrel of criticism and oppositions by the third party internet users on your post almost to the extent your computer being crashed. We call this phenomenon “炎上,” meaning “flame up” in Japanese. I checked how it is described in English on google, and found three ...

I'm trying to find a word which encapsulates within it the meaning of the term 'widow' and the term 'female divorcee' implicitly. So for example, rather than having to explicitly state: The individual could be a widow or a female divorcee. You could just say: The individual is a ______...