List Words
Rugged
Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.
Entrant
One who enters; a beginner.
Erosive
That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive.
Ritualism
A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
Angelus
A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.
Christening
of Christen
Ancient
Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- oppose..
Behoof
Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.
Minion
Minimum.
Experienced
of Exrerience
Tittle
A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
Analyze
To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a man..
Infallible
Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
Monolithic
Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.
Subtilize
To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.
Displacement
The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
Stringy
Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
Deme
A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.
Prothonotary
Alt. of Protonotary
Trull
A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop.
Sycophant
An informer; a talebearer.
Flyspeck
A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
Momentous
Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs.
Seed
of Seed
Withering
of Wither
Cloddish
Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.
Cease
To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
Exuberance
The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.
Bawl
To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
Arraignment
The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.
Denomination
The act of naming or designating.
Proportionate
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.
Gradation
The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
Sniggle
To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.
Energy
Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
Pluviose
The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted in 1793. It began January 20, and ended February 18. See Vendemiaire.
Astute
Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.
Indictment
The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.
Occupation
The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
Glee
Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
Exigent
Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
Frugal
Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economic..
Widespread
Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.
Deputation
The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
Fusillade
A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Lethean
Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe.
Self-evident
Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth.
Supplanting
of Supplant
Glue
A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for ..
Degraded
of Degrade
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
