List Words
Eternal
Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
Description
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Abdicate
To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
Organ
An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
Unbar
To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate.
Barley
A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.
Ravine
Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
Circulation
The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
By-end
Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.
Pent
of Pen
Spotty
Full of spots; marked with spots.
Trust
Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
Appendix
Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.
Bracket
An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
Proscribed
of Proscribe
Irrepressible
Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict.
Prim
The privet.
Decedent
Removing; departing.
Fecundity
The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
Commonplace
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
Relationship
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.
Godlike
Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue.
Wether
A castrated ram.
Ravenous
Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
Abating
of Abate
Purity
The condition of being pure.
Component
Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
Lax
Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
Thumb
The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.
Bellwether
A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.
Granulate
To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.
Heretical
Containing heresy; of the nature of, or characterized by, heresy.
Embarrassed
of Embarrass
Hushing
of Hush
Grass
Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
Clownish
Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
Increment
The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.
Cough
To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
Trench
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
Ophicleide
A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and co..
Lave
To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.
Bribable
Capable of being bribed.
Humble
Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
Progressive
Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.
Cheapen
To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
Homophone
A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.
Employ
To inclose; to infold.
Billet
A small paper; a note; a short letter.
Sylphine
Like a sylph.
Disserve
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.
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
