List Words
Whet
To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.
Additive
Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Inevasible
Incapable of being evaded; inevitable; unavoidable.
Justice
The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integr..
Pessimistic
Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding.
Misapprehend
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.
Frustrate
Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Frugally
Thriftily; prudently.
Carrot
An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
Self-consistency
The quality or state of being self-consistent.
Howler
One who howls.
Sublime
Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
Controller
One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
Quid
A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
Celebration
The act, process, or time of celebrating.
Adducible
Capable of being adduced.
Quack
To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Disjoin
To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
Examining
of Examine
Stretcher
One who, or that which, stretches.
Perseverance
The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun.
Study
A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.
Adjustment
The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
Convenience
Alt. of Conveniency
Counterbalance
To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
Gallop
To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
Inbreed
To produce or generate within.
Paltry
Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
Purview
The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.
Syrup
A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.
Physic
The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
Malleability
The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness.
Fend
A fiend.
Scabby
Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
Sever
To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.
Enchanted
of Enchant
Uncork
To draw the cork from; as, to uncork a bottle.
Brigandage
Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
Brake
imp. of Break.
Dwindling
of Dwindle
Daedal
Alt. of Daedalian
Feverish
Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
Spectrum
An apparition; a specter.
Rustic
Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.
High-reaching
Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring.
Address
To aim; to direct.
Bored
of Bore
Enticing
of Entice
Arcade
A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed..
Expiration
The act of expiring
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
