List Words
Dishabille
An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
Resistance
The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; ..
Jeopardous
Perilous; hazardous.
Crystallization
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
Collogue
To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.
Consult
To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
Talipes
The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
Talon
The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.
Lordosis
A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.
Unforeseeable
Incapable of being foreseen.
Responsory
Containing or making answer; answering.
Retrusion
The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
Reimbursement
The act reimbursing.
Retrogress
Retrogression.
Styptic
Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
Remigration
Migration back to the place from which one came.
Reappear
To appear again.
Reinstall
To install again.
Reintegrate
To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reestablish; as, to reintegrate a nation.
Matriarch
The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.
Admissibility
The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.
Comprisal
The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome.
Frump
To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
Advise
To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
Abduction
The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
Snatching
of Snatch
Stunting
of Stunt
Pashalic
The jurisdiction of a pasha.
Chancery
In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery..
Ungainliness
The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.
Proconsulship
Proconsulate.
Emperess
See Empress.
Aedileship
The office of an aedile.
Tribunate
The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.
Magistrature
Magistracy.
Maya
The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
Entrancement
The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy.
Awesomeness
The quality of being awesome.
Extraordinariness
The quality of being extraordinary.
Banking
of Bank
Mysteriousness
The state or quality of being mysterious.
Amaze
To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
Stupefaction
The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied.
Infatuation
The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
Marvel
That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
Blandishment
The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.
Formalities
of Formality
Membership
The state of being a member.
Spinster
A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
Throstle
The song thrush. See under Song.
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
