Attached to a clock, it tolls for the time. Attached to a church, it rings for the dead. In a coffin, you make this ring with a strong hope someone is listening. What is this four-letter word that you hope does not toll for you?

First: I'm the one you were given. Nick me: I'm informal or fast, Drop me: you're trying to impress somebody. Knight me: I sound like one's last.

You get them when you create well. You give them when someone else creates well. In science fiction stories they are often what you spend. Someone who steals a singular one is no friend.

I’m what happens when someone says, I’ll give you ten, not twelve, and you stare them down. Sometimes I’m stressful, sometimes I’m a sport. What am I?

First, you throw away the outside and cook the inside then you eat the outside and throw away the inside