Lever
clever
Crever (to die, French)
Rêver (to dream, French)
Not the best source really. It could well be a translation of a plural Chinese word (assuming they have plural forms in Chinese – I wouldn’t know). When I just googled ‘frictions’, it only came up in the “questions people ask”: what are the four frictions? However, the sites that answered that only talk about “types of friction”. I’m pretty sure it’s a ‘mass’ (uncountable) noun. However, for the purposes of the game I’m more than happy to accept your adjudication!
revel
Rebel
rebec
A mediaeval stringed instrument
My prizer was actually just a typo, didn’t mean to add the R. Oh well.
Here are some citations from the The Domestic Encyclopædia (1802), apparently meaning “rubbings”.
we are, however, convinced from experience, that medicated frictions, or the introduction of the most active medicines into the human system, by rubbing them in properly on the surface, might be attended with the most happy effects
cold fomentations and lotions, made by infusions of malt, ought to be applied, together with frictions
recourse may be had to warm-baths, frictions, and the application of volatile liniments.
blisters, frictions, and stimulants, applied to the shoulders, have frequently proved beneficial.
Also, Chinese words are of indeterminate plurality, unless optionally marked as plural. As I understand it – I’m also no expert on the language.
Rebe (vine / grape, German)
rede (counsel, advice)
“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.”
Hamlet (1.3.48-52)
rude
Rule
role
Rome!
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Roma!
Aroma
aruma (orange, Quechua)