The word game!!

misery.

sledgehammer

weapon

Violence

violin

string

thread

post

hole

gap

saddle

saddlebag.

baggie

Trousers

pantaloons

fashion

nerd

dork

cool :book:

coal

hydrocarbon

hydra.

serpent

snake

adam (he was tempted by a snake, along with wife Eve)

eve

Lilith

laylah (classical arabic; cognate to lilith, only in this case, it means "night")

lay

lie