Long story short: I perform a standarized interview for all candidates coming into my department, designed to test troubleshooting and abstract thinking on the fly. The last question on the interview is "provide me with a dictionary definition for the word 'art'". Muwhahhahaha....

We've got a group of interviews coming of candidates from the same school and are worried that they'll talk about the tough questions (my interview always ranks up there), so I want to get some different words for the candidates "to define" so it's fair.

I came up with "life"; Rick suggested "culture" or "living" instead of life. Anyone else got any ideas? I really want to capture the difficulties people have defining art, especially in a stressful situation like an interview setting...