List Words
President
Precedent.
Eldest
Oldest; longest in duration.
Bishop
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
Obstructed
of Obstruct
Harpoon
A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand..
Turned
of Turn
Insalubrious
Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.
Costive
Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
Putrefactive
Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.
Elect
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
Forgotten
of Forget
Antiquated
Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.
Ecclesiarch
An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
Abhorrent
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
Weevily
Having weevils; weeviled.
Vituperative
Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
Stopple
That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
Pope
Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
Repellent
Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Belittling
of Belittle
Archon
One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.
Hierarch
One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.
Pizzicato
A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)
Skiff
A small, light boat.
Shallop
A boat.
Funky
Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
Cutter
One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
Towboat
A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.
Monopolizing
of Monopolize
Reasty
Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat.
Proselytize
To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.
Strata
pl. of Stratum.
Impeccable
Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.
Spotless
Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.
Ameliorated
of Ameliorate
Poetical
Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.
Rhizome
A rootstock. See Rootstock.
Honorable
Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.
Cabbling
The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
Perfected
of Perfect
Archetypical
Relating to an archetype; archetypal.
Lopper
To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
Aesthetic
Alt. of Aesthetical
Forgiven
of Forgive
Condoned
of Condone
Expired
of Expire
Obliterated
of Obliterate
Exonerated
of Exonerate
Spiritual-minded
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections.
Cherubic
Alt. of Cherubical
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
