timepiece
Technically, an mechanism for measuring time and not necessarily perfectly synonymous with either clock or watch.
horologist
A person who repairs clocks, watches and other timepieces.
foreboding
A premonition of ominous misgiving.
specter
A ghosty, usually menacing, apparition.
mystified
Puzzled or perplexed; bewildered and baffled.
pilgrimage
Traveling, usually long distance--to a place--typically located in foreign land--to express reverence or experience the unknown.
oracle
Someone or something viewed as an unerring authority endowed with the power to peer into the future.
bequeathed
To pass something of value onto someone else, usually a person of the next generation.
cacophony
A loud, irritating, dissonant intermingling of various sounds, notes, chords or pitches.
delineate
To mark a line of division; to demarcate.
dumbstruck
Astonished and amazed; flabbergasted; blown away.
ashen
Pale, washed-out, ghosty or wan in appearance.
mantel
The framing--usually decorative--constructed around the opening of a fireplace.
refinement
Possessing qualities deemed culturally desirable in manners in elegance.
sardonically
Done with great scorn and disdain.
consternation
A feeing of anxious alarm and nervous worry.
pandemonium
A state of raucous anarchy; a chaotic hullaballoo.
mortician
Undertaker; a person who prepares a corpse for a funeral.
antiquities
Relics from the past.
mundane
Commonplace, ordinary and dull.
