Uninterned words
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A word that is not a member of any vocabulary is said to be uninterned.

There are several ways of creating an uninterned word:
<word> ( name vocab -- word )

<uninterned-word> ( name -- word )

gensym ( -- word )

define-temp ( quot effect -- word )

define-temp-syntax ( quot -- word )