Vori language

The Vori language spoken by the Vori, when rendered through the universal translator, retained a distinct structure and used synonyms and metaphors for everyday words and with a military-oriented syntax. 
Terms for an extended family used combinations of immediate family terms (i.e. mother's father rather than grandfather.) ()
==Words and phrases==
*Ally – friend
*Backwalk – back off / retreat ("it is sharper to backwalk")
*Beast – the face of the enemy; in addition, this word was used to imply that the enemy was completely immoral.
*Before – the past
*Blossoms – flowers
*Brightly – happily / cheerfully
*Clash – a war / a fight ("you've landed right in the middle of a clash")
*Cluster – to regroup ("it would be sharp to cluster with the others")
*Cluster mark – rendezvous point
*Colors – markings / uniform
*Cook – burn, cook, heat ("cooked by The Glare")
*Coverings – clothes ("they were his coverings")
*Crave – want ("do you crave any more?")
*Daughter's daughter – maternal granddaughter
*Defender – soldier
*Drill – teach ("Drill Chakotay to fire Vori arms.")
*Fast-walk – run / quick-march / rush ("they were fast-walked to the Extermination center")
*Fathom – to know / to understand / to think ("you don't fathom the Nemesis")
*Flame – to burn ("they flamed all our villages")
*Fleet colors – Starfleet uniform
*Footfalls – paces, a measure of distance
*Fullness – the whole story, summary of a situation
*The Glare – the Sun ("glimpse the glare")
*Glimpse – to see / an eye ("did you glimpse the Nemesis?"; "close your glimpses")
*Gloried – highly held / glorified / great
*Greeted – welcomed
*Grey – old (person) ("he's too grey to be of use")
*In the now – in the present
*Motherless – generic insult
*Mother's father – maternal grandfather
*Mother's mother – maternal grandmother
*Nemesis – enemy
*New-light – dawn
*Novice – rookie, a newly-trained soldier
*Nullify, nully – to kill / to be killed ("they were nullified")
*Plantings – crops / harvest ("they took our plantings" / "two plantings ago")
*Power – religious / god-concept ("We beg peace from the Power who made us Vori...")
*Rages – anger ("you turn your Trembles into Rages")
*Savory – tasty ("I'm afraid it's not very savory")
*Set loose – let go ( "Set my mother's father loose! Please! Let him loose!" )
*Sharp – clever / wise / smart / better ("it would be sharp to wait until new-light")
*Shroud – hide
*Signal – call / contact
*Sly – hide ("sly yourselves and fire back!")
*Soon-after – future ("In the soon-after, we'll send them flying from this sphere")
*Sphere – planet
*Sturdy – strong ("He's very gray, and his heart's not sturdy")
*Suffice – enough ("But does it suffice him to nullify you?")
*Tellings – words / knowledge; orders ("do my tellings")
*Tend – care for / protect
*Toiling – working
*The trembles – fear / cowardice ("you've got the trembles")
*Told – said ("well told, Novice.")
*Top – head ("keep your top low and your glimpses wide")
*Trunks – trees / woods ("we found him in the trunks")
*Upturned – a Vori burial disgrace, a body facing upwards after death so as to not go to the Way-after
*Way-after – the term for the Vori afterlife ("he's passed to the way-after")
*Wrestle – struggle against, overcome
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