List Words
Cognize
To know or perceive; to recognize.
Liver-colored
Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.
Animative
Having the power of giving life or spirit.
Admired
of Admire
Animadvert
To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
Counseling
of Counsel
Amontillado
A dry kind of cherry, of a light color.
Ganger
One who oversees a gang of workmen.
Est
East.
Boldness
The state or quality of being bold.
Casuistry
The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules a..
Crucified
of Crucify
Enforcer
One who enforces.
Purplish
Somewhat purple.
Ampersand
A word used to describe the character /, /, or &.
Amethystine
Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.
Debauchment
The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
Concentrative
Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration.
Transmutation
The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
Intervener
One who intervenes; especially (Law), a person who assumes a part in a suit between others.
Chanter
One who chants; a singer or songster.
Earnings
of Earning
Beloved
of Belove
Purpureal
Of a purple color; purple.
Metamorphism
The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limes..
Dionaea
An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.
Artlessness
The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.
Anesthesia
Alt. of Anesthetic
Propitious
Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze.
Disinterestedly
In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.
Bastardize
To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
Controversial
Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.
Commorant
Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
Philomel
Same as Philomela, the nightingale.
Counterfoil
That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the acco..
Grumbly
In a grum manner.
Prompting
of Prompt
Deserter
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
Microorganism
Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
Conspirer
One who conspires; a conspirator.
Abusiveness
The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
Astraddle
In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.
Astride
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Eventuating
of Eventuate
Horseback
The back of a horse.
Transmogrification
The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation.
Occurring
of Occur
Onwards
Onward.
Regarding
of Regard
Respecting
of Respect
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
