stakes (a type of horse race)

excitement, stimulation, agitation, arousal

be excited, be stimulated, be agitated, be aroused

lace (fabric)

lathe

race (of people) / race (competition)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(obsolete) a horse