causes — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
corpus — A corpus is a large collection of written or spoken texts that is used for language research.
courses — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
forces — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
fortress — a large fortified place; a fort or group of forts, often including a town; citadel.
gorgeous — splendid or sumptuous in appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificent: a gorgeous gown; a gorgeous sunset.
horses — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
losses — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
morbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
orphan — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
porpoise — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
portion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
sources — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
torches — a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
carrion — Carrion is the decaying flesh of dead animals.
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velocity — rapidity of motion or operation; swiftness; speed: a high wind velocity.
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metamorphosis — Biology. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly. Compare complete metamorphosis.
