List Words
Sell
Self.
Signify
To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be pre..
Seclusion
The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
Ranchman
An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.
Self-contained
Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.
Creaking
of Creak
Browse
The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.
Pushing
of Push
Stableboy
Alt. of Stableman
Cession
A yielding to physical force.
Insociable
Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected.
Mortified
imp. & p. p. of Mortify.
Ill
Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.
Broody
Inclined to brood.
Meddling
of Meddle
Tarpan
A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.
Bestrew
To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle.
Enquiry
See Inquiry.
Injuriousness
The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.
Parse
To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
Inquisitorial
Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power.
Cricket
A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
Weariness
The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
Lacerate
To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
Pencil
An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
Tripos
A tripod.
Particularize
To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.
Lineal
Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
Bedizenment
That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
Enclothe
To clothe.
Croup
The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.
Characterize
To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.
Tongue-tied
Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum.
Search
To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
Wilt
2d pers. sing. of Will.
Succeeding
of Succeed
Quorum
Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not pr..
Exhaustless
Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
Paraphrast
A paraphraser.
Tierce
A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.
Flageolet
A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder..
Elderly
Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
Slipshod
Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
Deride
To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
Beard
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
Pulverate
To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize.
Assignation
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
Gourde
A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc.
Byroad
A private or obscure road.
Anile
Old-womanish; imbecile.
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
