It could be oversight, under-learning or such but on and off I remember that I never learned what to call the game-changer "-s" that comes in to distinguish plurals from singular words. "Plural -s" is all that I learned and use. Of as much significance is the "-s" that the apostrophe brings with...

In portuguese we call it "marginal" (which I would say relates to the word margin, i.e at the border of something). No result from google translate felt as the right answer. We may say for example "Vou pela marginal" which means "I'm going to take the __ road"

For example, in English words like "though" and "trough" are more orthographically defective (as one would not be able to discern pronunciation by spelling alone), while "sad" and "banana" are less orthographically defective. Obviously this is relative because English orthography is inherently d...

I'm wanting to know if a term exists that implies somewhat contradictory aspects of both control and being controlled, so expressing a simultaneous dichotomy along the lines of: controller/controlled master/slave jailer/prisoner governor/governed superior/subordinate One might perhaps use thi...

What do u call a man who doesn't want to be advertised, who doesn't want to come to light, who doesn't want to expose himself ( he is not recluse or ascetic ), There are some great people that we don't know because they don't advertise themselves.

Numbness is the absence of physical sensation. What single word might be used for "distracting" from it, for diverting a person's attention from their numbness or lack of sensitivity? Bert found that stroking his elbow was the best way of ____ himself from his numbness. Bert winked at he...

Is there a word for the general, solely negative, discrimination of any kind of group? Like, a word that encompasses misandry, misogyny, anti-semitism, the common use of both "racist" and "sexist", etc.

By characterizing feature, I'm referring to an attribute of something that uniquely identifies it. Is there a single word that describes such a feature? Characterizing and distinguishing come to my mind, but I feel as if there are a lot more terms for this that I'm missing.

Which word is more appropriate in a geographical mapping context when referring to counties in a state or contiguous states within a country, contiguous countries within a continent, etc? Are they interchangeable? If based on this n-gram 'coterminous' is used more though 'conterminous' seems mor...