Perfidy

Tonight while reading The Tale of Despereaux we came across the word 'perfidy' and had to look it up in a dictionary. It is the first time we have looked up a word together but oh, dear reader, it was not in Wuggie's "First Dictionary" so we had to drag out Mama's Webster's New World Dictionary. And so he learned right from the start that hard lesson about dictionaries: if your dictionary does not contain all the words you need, it is not much use at all. Next we tried some easier words. 'Palm' we tried, and 'force'. Neither were in his lovely brand new dictionary. He felt somewhat betrayed. Perfidy!