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The congou is an amorphous mass that undulatingly attacks conga lines.
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At first I too thought the game had gotten off track, but on further scrutiny I discovered that Bran's post was actually a very clever and subtle cryptogram, in which letters are assigned a numerical value based on their ordinal place in the alphabet (A=1, B=2 ... Z=26) multiplied by the corresponding digit in the decimal train of e (2.7182818...), mod(26) and divided by pi. In this manner Bran suggested the word rabiator, whose description I was typing when you suggested glisk and which I offer below.
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The rabiator (Lepus caerbannogus) was a prehistoric ancestor of the hare that arose during the Mesozoic Era, and was one of the very few species that survived into the Cenozoic Era, during which it thrived. It is widely speculated that this was due to the rabiator's long, subterranean hibernation period, which allowed sufficient numbers to survive the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Rabiator's were known to be especially ruthless and cunning predators, and were able to bring down much larger prey. They are thought to be chiefly responsible for the extinction of the wooly mammoth.
During the middle Cenozoic Era, the rabiator diverged into two distinct species, Lepus vorpalis and Lepus americanus troglodytes. The former survived through the 5th Century but its numbers dwindled owing to a loss of habitat and a tendency towards excessive consumption of alcohol in the form of fermented carrot juice. According to Mallory, the last surviving Lepus vorpalis was killed by King Arthur with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
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The Scottish spiritual equivalent of the leprechaun, the glisk is said to be the one that awakes you from your dreams just as you get a glimpse of that dream's *treasure, begin to realize a long forgotten memory, or will wake you just as a long departed loved one is about reveal secrets from the past. It is also responsible for all the supposed sightings of the Loch Ness monster, as the glisk can evoke fleeting images from out of the subconscious into the mind's eye. Yes, they do wear underpants under kilts, but the glisk will endeavor to make you see something else.
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The vilipend is unusual, in having 543 legs but only one eye. Vilipendi are very small, and nearly impossible to see, but their legs are felt as little itchy prickles when they walk on you. They like to crawl around on your limbs just as your are dozing off to sleep.
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The resorb is not a monster in itself but the appendage which differentiates human teachers from those of alien origin. It is an independantly mobile pedicle arising from the occiput and surmounted by a single large eye.
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