The word "orc" is usable in written English and is well written.
It is typically used in fantasy literature and gaming to refer to a fictional humanoid creature often depicted as brutish and aggressive.
Example: "The adventurers prepared for battle as a horde of orcs charged towards them."
Alternatives: "goblin" or "ogre."
Any given orc, for example, could work out which other fighters on the battlefield were in its line of sight, and hence whether it should flee or attack.
I know, I'm sorry – it's just nothing really appeals to me about orc copulation or whatever goes on in it.
If you are culled at the last minute, swarmed by orcs and their captain, the head orc will then power up - moving up the hierarchy.
So, yep, he's glad to have slain his last orc – if for nothing else than that he "always likes finishing jobs, even when I enjoy them".
Undead, thrust back to life with the aid of a Spirit of vengeance, Talion returns to avenge his family's death by hunting down the key players in the orc hierarchy, including Sauron's right-hands.
Above me the crossbow-wielding orc mutters something into the wind.
The CNN/Time/ORC poll out just now has Romney on 37%, Santorum second with 19%, followed by Gingrich on 18%, Paul on 12% and Perry with just 5%.
Staff on foreign assignments have "gone from being special and unique, with piles of money thrown at them, to being an everyday part of the company," says Siobhan Cummins of ORC Worldwide, a research and consulting firm.
A local trawling company, ORC Fishing & Food Processing, recorded about 20 incidents involving its fleet last year, including two deaths.
In a recent report, ORC Worldwide, a consultancy, listed Lagos, with its violent crime, bad roads and wretched sanitation, as the world's worst place for expatriates to live in.
Since the poll was published Mr Trump has attacked Des Moines Register, Iowa's largest newspaper, for being biased against him and referred to a CNN/ORC poll, released on Monday, which found Mr Trump has 33 per cent support in Iowa, followed by Mr Cruz at 20 per cent.
