I read your initial post just after Easter when my mom gave me a potted gift rose. I had no idea what to do with it, but I followed your advice to a T, and I was sad to watch all the blooms and buds wilt and die only days after I repotted.
premonition (plural premonitions) 1  A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future. 2  A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
Definition of attrition. 1 [Middle English attricioun, from Medieval Latin, attrition-, attritio, from Latin] : sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God. 2 : the act of rubbing together : friction; also : the act of wearing or grinding down by friction Stones can be smoothed and polished by attrition.