The extra added letter is always suspect, but a bit ion is one that is slightly charged, just a tiny bit charged. Not a big ion, that would be shocking.


ELECTRIC

An underhanded means of winning a seat in parliament.  If Con Trete had deliberately spread the corona virus, that would count as an elect trick.  So would putting on a headscarf and passing as your grandmother in order to vote twice, or releasing a tiger at the State Opening in order to free up more seats.

IMPERSONATE

To have eaten someone who was pretending to be you.  This is the way cannibals deal with identity theft.  Messy but effective.

We need the next word

Sorry ;-)

REPAST

A posh word for ancient history - not just past but re-past.

ARCHAEIC

One of the basic building features in many Roman structures These Ancient Arches are what hold up the Colosseum and the long stretches of aqueducts scattered around the old Empire. Arches of Ancient Empires was too many syllables, so they ran it altogether, as you do.


AQUEDUCTS

Queuing for public services has become such a feature of modern life that special conduits have to be set aside so that the tents, sleeping bags and Primus stoves of those in the queue don't impede the progress of other people trying to reach their own queue before the best camping sites are taken.

RESERVOIR

This is a serial waiter, moving from one job to another with rapid succession. He gains employment as a server here and then soon quits to become a server there. Reservice work is known with the fancy term because in today's world we don't like "mean" labels when an obscure word or phrase will do.


PUNDITS

The pund (pronounced punt) was the Irish currency before it adopted the euro.  A pundit was a 50 cent piece. 

CURRENCY