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Jabberwocky 16 words

Favorite words from Lewis Carroll's poem, Jabberwocky from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872

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  1. beamish
    smiling with happiness or optimism
  2. beware
    be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
  3. bite
    to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
  4. blade
    the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
  5. burble
    flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
  6. chortle
    a soft partly suppressed laugh
  7. dead
    no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
  8. flame
    the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
  9. foe
    an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
  10. galumph
    move around heavily and clumsily
  11. gyre
    a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
  12. joy
    the emotion of great happiness
  13. shun
    avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
  14. slain
    killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"
  15. snatch
    to grasp hastily or eagerly
  16. wood
    the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees