ROT - To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
TOE - Each of the five digits on the end of the foot.
TOT - A small child.
TEXT - A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
TORE - Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
TORT - Tart, sharp.
ROTE - The process of learning or committing something to memory through mechanical repetition, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning.
TOTE - A bag, specifically a tote bag.
TROT - A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
OTTER - Any aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal, member of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others.
TORTE - A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).
EXTORT - To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.