My writing teacher dislikes the expression "there are" in essays/writing. Does anybody know some good substitutes for this overused expression? Or a better way to express these words?

May 18, 2015 · Is there a single word that can be used to refer to someone who is always there for you, like a father or a mother who does every little thing for you? Like s/he is like sticking up for you, …

I forget what the word for 5 times is. I know it is single, double, triple, quadruple but forgot what the one for 5 is.

Nov 23, 2011 · Is there a word that best describes food and drink taken at the same time? I've thought of refreshments and consumables but neither seem right to me.

Jun 12, 2015 · possible duplicate of How can I form a word like "quadruple" for any number I want? Also When do the “-uple”s end? and Is there another word for five times, such as triple, quadruple?, which …

Dec 5, 2011 · We can use fortnightly to indicate once every two weeks and help disambiguate that way. Are there any other words we could use which could help, particularly words which mean "twice a …

Jan 4, 2015 · I'm searching for another, perhaps more technical term for a large and a small family. To clarify, I simply mean a family with many children and one with very few, if any, children. So I'm not …

Oct 6, 2015 · This word does not have any of the negative connotations words like subordinates or underlings carry. Oxford Dictionaries Online lists this as the meaning of the word and also gives an …

Jan 12, 2012 · The word namefellow or name-fellow, although rather obscure, does have exactly the meaning you're after, without the connotation of namesake that both people are named after the …

Feb 5, 2016 · 23 There is a word miscegenate, from the Greek for "mixed race" (misce-, -genus) which would provide a clue. The Greek for other is allos, which provides prefixes allo- (as in allophone) and …