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A Christmas Carol #2
English Language Arts 7th grade
Term | Definition |
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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 |