Well, Plutarch, I don't know if the game I started here just zoomed under your feet or over your head, but now that we have a bit of your personal background on the word I hope you'll incorporate all your above, beholden ideas about 'equivalency' into the form of an acrostic so we can get on with the concise version of wordplay/fun that this game intends...

... and then give the next in line a word to work with, etc...

I thought this game was called "demented dictionary", but that is something else entirely... maybe I'll start one of those, too...