List Words
Discipline
The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
Request
The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
Seamanship
The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.
Profess
To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
Connect
To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
Sheep
Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
Totem
A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.
Gentleman
A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.
Mean-spirited
Of a mean spirit; base; groveling.
Octant
The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
Besiege
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.
Propose
To set forth.
Procure
To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or ..
Scope
That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; obje..
Quicken
To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
Fee
property; possession; tenure.
Inimitability
The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness.
Inglorious
Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease.
Kernel
The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of..
Cheap
A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
Evidence
That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the t..
Troublous
Full of trouble; causing trouble.
Aluminum
See Aluminium.
Dramatize
To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.
Dean
A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
Account
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
Government
The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.
Tactics
The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and ..
Utilization
The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.
Lucre
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
Squat
The angel fish (Squatina angelus).
Sea legs
Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.
Coordination
The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a gove..
Inform
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
Subjection
The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.
Indoctrinate
To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed..
Self-denial
The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.
Chastise
To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
Facilities
of Facility
salt
Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from..
Retainer
One who, or that which, retains.
Tomb
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
Confirm
To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Brewery
A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
Infective
Infectious.
Paste
A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.
Rota
An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
Directory
Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
Couple
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
Unfold
To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
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
