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A Christmas Carol #2
English Language Arts 7th grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| wager | a bet or gamble |
| astonish | surprise or impress greatly |
| bestow | to give as a gift |
| compulsion | forcing to do something |
| resolute | steady, marked by determination |
| delinquinces | young criminals who committed minor crimes |
| jocund | jolly |
| gratitiude | showing thankfullness |
| meager | little or small amounts of something |
| vacant | empty |
| beeseech | beg |
| rapt | very fascinated |
| engrosses | absorbs or occupies |
| obliged | to make legally bound to an action |
| sordid | involving ignoble actions and motives |
| shrouded | cloth in which a dead person is wrapped in for burial |