List Words
Seance
A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.
Bargaining
of Bargain
Deployed
of Deploy
Incubation
A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
Situated
Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.
Ensconced
of Ensconce
Synod
An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
Gravidity
The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.
Cataleptic
Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.
Irradiate
To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.
Sitting
of Sit
Logy
Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse.
Seated
of Seat
Earnestly
In an earnest manner.
Sedentary
Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man.
Tinseled
of Tinsel
Dismount
To come down; to descend.
Effulgent
Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.
Smoldering
of Smoulder
Shoving
of Shove
Bequeath
To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.
Inveterately
In an inveterate manner or degree.
Insistently
In an insistent manner.
Confide
To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
Steadfastly
In a steadfast manner; firmly.
Patiently
In a patient manner.
Doggedly
In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.
Resolvedly
So as to resolve or clear up difficulties; clearly.
Diligently
In a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity.
Adventuresome
Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.
Pulsive
Tending to compel; compulsory.
Persistently
In a persistent manner.
Turgescent
Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.
Determinedly
In a determined manner; with determination.
Solenoid
An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and r..
Distance
The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
Airward
Alt. of Airwards
Smatterer
One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
Fourteen
Four and ten more; twice seven.
Hopper
One who, or that which, hops.
Font
A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing w..
Tripper
One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
Geodesist
One versed in geodesy.
Amentia
Imbecility; total want of understanding.
Idiocy
The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
Waitress
A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
Hallucination
The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
Zanyism
State or character of a zany; buffoonery.
Nautical
Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
Hexavalent
Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
