List Words
Vicissitudinous
Full of, or subject to, changes.
Throned
of Throne
Spluttering
of Splutter
Paradisiac
Alt. of Paradisiacal
Paradisal
Paradisiacal.
Yaw
A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.
Shearing
Same as Shearling.
Deviatory
Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion.
Divarication
A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
Ungracious
Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.
Crusher
One who, or that which, crushes.
Ender
One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
Flitting
of Flit
Slaw
Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.
Varying
of Vary
Intermitting
of Intermit
Copestone
A stone for coping. See Coping.
Changing
of Change
Wholeness
The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
Deathblow
A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Scentless
Having no scent.
Indecision
Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation.
Floorer
Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.
Lamenting
of Lament
Bewailing
of Bewail
Olfactory
Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells.
Mourning
of Mourn
Consent
Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
Tidbit
A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.
Bemoaning
of Bemoan
Attar
A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.
Odorant
Yielding odors; fragrant.
Ideograph
Same as Ideogram.
Grieving
of Grieve
Rune
A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general..
Bawling
of Bawl
Cuneiform
Alt. of Cuniform
Hieroglyph
Alt. of Hieroglyphic
Perpetuity
The quality or state of being perpetual; as, the perpetuity of laws.
Emblem
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Resisting
of Resist
Inanimation
Infusion of life or vigor; animation; inspiration.
Invidious
Envious; malignant.
Sunshine
The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
Utopia
An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in..
Disputing
of Dispute
Hazel
A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produ..
Valhalla
The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.
Rapture
A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
Discontinued
of Discontinue
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
