• Susurrus
  • Whispers
• Ursine
  • Of bears
• Haruspex
  • Ancient Roman priest specialized in reading omens from entrails
• Abseil
  • Rappel
• Sessile
  • Fixed in place
• Recrudesce
  • Recurrence
• Treacle
  • Obsequiousness
• Arriviste
  • A selfish parvenu
• Mésalliance
  • A disadvantageous marriage
• Apotropaic
  • The power to avert bad luck
• Manqué
  • Having failed to achieve potential
• Autochthonous
  • Indigenous
• Bosky
  • Wooded
• Prodrome
  • An early symptom of disease
• Detumescense
  • The process of releasing tension
• Pusillaniumous
  • Showing cowardice
• Orison
  • A prayer
• Lucre
  • Money, dishonestly acquired
• Paramour
  • Lover of one married.
• Peccadillo
  • A small sin
• Vatic
  • Related to predictions
• Organon
  • An instrument of thought
• Apposite
  • Appropriate
• Swingeing
  • Severe, excessive
• Tetchy
  • Irascible
• Mulct
  • To extract via tax