Why this word is great
EMBUSH — [Verb] To place or hide in a thicket or concealed position, as in preparing an ambush. From Middle English embushen, enbusshen, from Old French embuissier, enbuschier ("to hide in the woods, ambush"), from en- ("in") + bois ("wood"). Unlike "ambush," which denotes the violent culmination of the trap, or "conceal," a motive-neutral and general act of hiding, "embush" captures the tense, preparatory art of merging with the terrain. It is the glint of a spear-tip stilled behind hawthorn, the archer’s fletching brushing damp bark, the hunter’s breath held against the chill of the undergrowth—the quiet, tactical moment before violence, when predation is first an act of stillness.