The Orenda Glossary

The Orenda Glossary

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Written by Karen Wang

Ominous

Baleful, threatening

Dormancy

Being temporarily inactive

Emanating

Arising, issuing

Extemporize

Improvise

Reticence

Secrecy, shyness

Culmination

Pinnacle, summit

Vagary

Fancy, whim

Gruesome

Horrifying, distressing

Excruciating

Agonizing, awful

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