List Words
Fastidious
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Gymnastics
Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
Mellifluous
Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly; as, a mellifluous voice.
Cease
Extinction.
Internationalism
The state or principles of international interests and intercourse.
Self-determination
Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
Enmesh
To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.
Bookkeeper
One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
Autocracy
Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
Scissors
A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of sci..
Scraper
An instrument with which anything is scraped.
Incapacitate
To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
Quotum
Part or proportion; quota.
Arbitrary
Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
Sabulous
Sandy; gritty.
Mutilated
of Mutilate
Suppositional
Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.
Enervated
of Enervate
Despondency
The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
Allege
To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
Saucebox
A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.
Finish
See Finishing coat, under Finishing.
Bumper
A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
Manipulator
One who manipulates.
Tergiversation
The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
Peephole
A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
Piste
The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.
Mulct
A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
Rarity
The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
Wrinkled
of Wrinkle
Mannerism
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
Footpath
A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
Oligarchic
Alt. of Oligarchical
Gusto
Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.
Promenade
A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
Amazement
The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.
Contestable
Capable of being contested; debatable.
Stepper
One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.
Recreancy
The quality or state of being recreant.
Convolute
Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.
Chivalry
A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
Overweening
Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
Yockel
The yaffle.
Apologizer
One who makes an apology; an apologist.
Adaptation
The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
Valiance
Alt. of Valiancy
Ungula
A hoof, claw, or talon.
Peppery
Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.
Inherit
To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendib..
Double-quick
Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
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
