List Words
Grow
To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
Yogi
A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic.
Hieronymite
See Jeronymite.
Subterrane
A cave or room under ground.
Cacology
Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.
Slovenliness
The quality or state of being slovenly.
Unfreeze
To thaw.
Bunker
A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
Dugout
A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.
Banging
of Bang
Antre
A cavern.
Want
The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of fo..
Insensible
Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.
Sniffle
To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.
Col
A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.
Firearm
A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
Banshee
Alt. of Banshie
Nuptial
Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies.
Smearing
of Smear
Muck
abbreviation of Amuck.
Concert
To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
Attune
To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.
Concord
A state of agreement; harmony; union.
Clumsiness
The quality of being clumsy.
Beauty
An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
Aback
Toward the back or rear; backward.
Assembled
of Assemble
Inexactitude
Inexactness; uncertainty; as, geographical inexactitude.
Bakery
The trade of a baker.
Incumbent
Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.
Riven
of Rive
Monotonous
Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.
Smashed
of Smash
Harmonics
The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
Binominal
Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.
Circular
In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
Apocryphal
Pertaining to the Apocrypha.
Genetic
Same as Genetical.
Self-assured
Assured by or of one's self; self-reliant; complacent.
Polymerize
To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde.
Fictitious
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
Bestial
Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
Lascivious
Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.
Cacophony
An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
Deteriorated
of Deteriorate
Continuing
of Continue
Engender
To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
Concinnity
Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse.
Dispersed
of Disperse
Hydrate
A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.
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
