Festoon is usually "adorn," maybe it was plural.
A word that begins and ends with the letters he: headache. heartache.
almost certainly youth or young
assists
Phonetic is a word. It begins with the letters phone.
klutz
Advanced
neutral
Luckily
sympathy
Mbira is an African musical instrument. It begins with the letters MB.
No word in the English language begins with the letters pb.
The word strict has 6 letters and begins with s.