The words for today and the coming days are

roquet

• verb ( roquets, roqueting, roqueted) [with obj.] strike (another ball) with one's own.

• noun an act of roqueting.

— origin mid 19th cent.: apparently an arbitrary alteration of the verb croquet, originally used in the same sense.

etymon

• noun ( pl. etymons or etyma) a word or morpheme from which a later word is derived. — origin late 16th cent. (denoting the original form of a word): via Latin from Greek etumon ‘true thing’ (see etymology).

spalted

• adjective denoting wood containing blackish irregular lines as a result of fungal decay, sometimes used to produce a decorative surface. — origin 1970s: from dialect spalt ‘to split, splinter’ + -ed.

Chetnik

• noun a member of a Slavic nationalist guerrilla force in the Balkans, especially during the Second World War. — origin early 20th cent.: from Serbo-Croat cetnik, from ceta ‘band, troop’.

misfeasance

• noun Law a transgression, especially the wrongful exercise of lawful authority. — origin early 17th cent.: from Old French mesfaisance, from mesfaire, from mes- ‘wrongly’ + faire ‘do’ (from Latin facere). Compare with malfeasance.

kvass

• noun [mass noun] (especially in Russia) a fermented drink, low in alcohol, made from rye flour or bread with malt. — origin from Russian kvas.

duodecimo

• noun ( pl. duodecimos) a size of book in which each leaf is one twelfth of the size of the printing sheet.

• a book of this size.

— origin mid 17th cent.: from Latin (in) duodecimo ‘in a twelfth’, from duodecimus ‘twelfth’.

-- JohnStephenson - 25 Aug 2010