My introduction to Watership Down was in the Paideia, the book of word lists that the National Spelling Bee used to distribute as study material before bee seas

My introduction to Watership Down was in the Paideia, the book of word lists that the National Spelling Bee used to distribute as study material before bee season. The word lists were occasionally themed around specific books and for awhile they had a Watership Down list. Here are a few of the awesome words I learned from that list (which eventually led me to read and enjoy Mr. Adams' book): stridulate (what a cricket does when it chirps) susurration (murmuring, like grass in the wind) tormentil (an astringent plant) myxomatosis (a viral infection in rabbits!) They don't write 'em like that anymore. RIP Mr. Adams.