click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
A Christmas Carol
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstinence | avoidance |
| adversary | opponent |
| agitated | stirred up |
| alteration | change |
| benevolence | generosity |
| blithe | joyous |
| capacious | spacious |
| condescension | courteous with a superior air |
| consolation | comfort |
| cordially | graciously |
| covetous | greedy |
| destitute | penniless |
| detestation | intense dislike |
| disdaining | treating with scorn |
| dispelled | scattered |
| encompass | to surround |
| essence | spirit |
| execrable | very bad |
| extravagance | extremely abundant |
| facetious | merry |
| feign | pretend |
| fettered | chained |
| illustrious | brilliant |
| inexorable | relentless |
| infamous | notoriously bad |
| intercedes | pleads on another's behalf |
| kindred | related |
| latent | hidden |
| livid | furious |
| loiter | hang around |
| melancholy | sadnesses |
| morose | ill-humored |
| obscure | vague |
| odious | hateful |
| officious | self-important |
| ominous | threatening |
| pedestrian | on foot |
| portly | fat |
| precepts | practical rules |
| prodigiously | enormously |
| recompensed | repaid |
| recumbent | lying down |
| relents | softens in attitude |
| remonstrated | protested |
| resolute | determined |
| sordid | filthy |
| supplication | praying |
| susceptible | easily influenced |
| ubiquitous | being everywhere |
| unanimity | complete agreement |