List Words
Self-indulgent
Indulging one's appetites, desires, etc., freely.
Fan
An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
Decant
To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.
Delete
To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
Addictedness
The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
Vinaigrette
A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients, -- used esp. for cold meats.
Foment
To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
Blotter
One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
Pertness
The quality or state of being pert.
Stressful
Having much stress.
Wandering
of Wander
Poultice
A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.
Phonetic
Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.
Implicit
Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.
Inclusion
The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy.
Roused
of Rouse
Imprecation
The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.
Make
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
Wearied
of Weary
Ullage
The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency.
Moanful
Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.
Dread
To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
Angel
A messenger.
Comminuted
of Comminute
Floss
The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
Bankruptcy
The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
Ism
A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.
Panorama
A complete view in every direction.
Overgreedy
Excessively greedy.
Squamous
Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called fr..
Detrital
Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.
Exude
To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
Separate
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
Mutilation
The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
Factual
Relating to, or containing, facts.
Refusal
The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.
Raging
of Rage
Flocculent
Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Disintegrate
To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospher..
Heel
To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
Adjunct
Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Edacious
Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
Herewith
With this.
Skittish
Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt.
Bibulous
Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.
Cult
Attentive care; homage; worship.
Detract
To take away; to withdraw.
Sublimity
The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).
Excellent
Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, so..
Disproportion
Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.
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
