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This tag is for questions seeking a single word that fits a meaning. To ensure that your question is not closed as off-topic, please be specific about the intended use of the word. INCLUDE A SAMPLE SENTENCE demonstrating how the word would be used. Click on "Info", or "View Tag" and "Learn more..." for more information. Please use the [phrase-requests] tag if you seek a phrase and the [terminology] tag if you seek a term in a specialized subject also.
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Word for an intentionally high bid on a job
To highball means to make a high estimate, generally of a price or cost.
Wiktionary says:
To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.
Its example:
If we highball the price, it comes out to …
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Is there an antonym for the verb 'besiege'?
Occupy is a common verb for this. It has an older association with the military occupation of a country, but movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the wider Occupy movement strengthened the link of …
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Word for the loss of one parent
Merriam-Webster has an entry for half-orphan, meaning someone with only one living parent.
They say specifically a child, which would match the usual usage of "orphan" (as mentioned in the question), …
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Academic word that means "ghost lover" (one who loves ghosts)
Spectrophilia is sexual attraction to ghosts or sexual arousal by ghosts. It has a Wikipedia page, which notes that although it may not be a genuine paraphilia in psychiatric terms, it is common in my …
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
You would probably get a better answer on a mathematics or computer science forum. But one candidate is sparse, defined in Wiktionary as:
(mathematics) Having few nonzero elements
It is particularly …
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What's the word when someone tries to change the meaning of a statement by using different d...
This is an informal fallacy called equivocation (Wikipedia, RationalWiki). The latter defines it as
a logical fallacy that relies on implicitly alternating between the different meanings a single wor …
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What's a word that means "once rich but now poor"?
If you are looking for something more formal and sociological, downwardly mobile is another possible term, an adjectival phrase, with the equivalent noun phrase downward mobility. Collins dictionaries …
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What's the counterpart to "spheroid" for a circle? There's no "circoid"
An oval is a plane figure sometimes defined as egg-shaped or like a stretched or deformed circle. Wikipedia says that in geometry "generally, to be called an oval, a plane curve should resemble the ou …
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In certain cultures, what is the term for avoiding the use of a spouse's name?
The general term is avoidance speech [Wikipedia], where "a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives". It is found in some Australian Aborigi …
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Word for the dust carried by wind
Loess is the geological term.
According to Wikipedia:
A loess (US: /ˈlɛs, ˈlʌs, ˈloʊ.əs/, UK: /ˈloʊ.əs, ˈlɜːs/; from German: Löss [lœs]) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed …
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What will we call person who likes to study at the day time?
A morning person, lark, or early bird is someone who gets up early and is at their best in the morning. These terms are typically considered the opposite of "night owl", in that there are considered t …
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What's the opposite of symploce?
Mesodiplosis is according to Wikipedia "the repetition of a word or phrase at the middle of every clause". It's quite an uncommon term: it's not in Merriam-Webster online dictionary for instance. But …
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Name for using a big word where a small word would suffice?
Sounds like the adjective sesquipedalian. Merriam-Webster defines it as "having many syllables" (when used of words) or "given to or characterized by the use of long words" (when used of people).
Ther …
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Word for something showing a multitude of issues on a smaller scale
Microcosm, which Lexico defines as "A community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristics of something much larger."
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Is there a word for a 'letter that should not be opened until after a specified date?'
I've seen the term Open When letter used for this sort of thing, although it's not a particularly common phrase. It can be a specific date like a birthday, a general "open when you graduate" , or "ope …
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