List Words
Full-blown
Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose.
Self-contradictory
Contradicting one's self or itself.
Unequal
Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners ..
Drearisome
Very dreary.
Sodden
of Seethe
Oneness
The state of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity.
Deciduous
Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth..
Bugle horn
A bugle.
Etiolated
of Etiolate
Indiscreet
Not discreet; wanting in discretion.
Fragile
Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
At one
In concord or friendship; in agreement (with each other); as, to be, bring, make, or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation.
Incarnated
of Incarnate
Uprising
Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.
Aggressive
Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.
Incalculable
Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great.
Maneuver
Alt. of Manoeuvre
Cheek
The side of the face below the eye.
Appreciation
A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
Strapping
of Strap
Affable
Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable.
Glair
The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.
Platitude
The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.
Cabalistic
Alt. of Cabalistical
Rostrate
Alt. of Rostrated
Cereal
Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
Convocation
The act of calling or assembling by summons.
Scanty
Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
Justify
To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.
Emulation
The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.
Immutable
Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.
Top-heavy
Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part.
Vocation
A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
Excrescence
An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an..
Miscite
To cite erroneously.
Conventionality
The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
Aver
A work horse, or working ox.
Rating
of Rate
Metric system
See Metric, a.
Prescribe
To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.
Arrogant
Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons.
Marinate
To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare by the use of marinade.
Ranking
of Rank
Accessory
Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, wh..
Picturesque
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in..
Conjunct
United; conjoined; concurrent.
Waiver
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Verify
To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.
Boodle
The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
Grandiose
Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
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
