List Words
Ra
A roe; a deer.
Silicon
A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline ..
Impugnation
Act of impugning; opposition; attack.
Bet
That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.
Preserve
To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
Professedly
By profession.
Priority
The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
Skimping
of Skimp
Prewarning
of Prewarn
Singletree
The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
Valetudinary
Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian.
Mettle
Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.
Abrogation
The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.
Crossbar
A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
Iridal
Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors.
Wireworm
A galleyworm.
Interruptive
Tending to interrupt; interrupting.
Appropriately
In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
Deservedly
According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Frightful
Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
Against
Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.
Strictness
Quality or state of being strict.
Biased
of Bias
Selection
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
These
of This
Mellowing
of Mellow
Obliquity
The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the ..
Boron
A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive col..
Augural
Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.
Obliquely
In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.
Apostolic
Alt. of Apostolical
Shirt
A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by me..
Speculate
To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to sp..
Bettering
of Better
Docility
teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.
Holmium
A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite.
Augmentation
The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
Presageful
Full of presages; ominous.
Inconsequentiality
The state of being inconsequential.
Scarcely
With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
Dulcet
Sweet to the taste; luscious.
Vernage
A kind of sweet wine from Italy.
Tenaille
An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
Occasional
Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occa..
Meager
Alt. of Meagre
Short-circuit
To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
Trenchantly
In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
Mountebank
To play the mountebank.
Liableness
Quality of being liable; liability.
Crossing
of Cross
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
