A+Christmas+Carol+vocabulary

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Flashcards for all words (and some extras) on QUIZLET (Thanks to Tim S.) and synonyms and antonyms thanks to Amanda P.



e.c. word: ruddy p.13 – “…it had not been light all day: and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like **//ruddy//** smears upon the palpable brown air.” media type="custom" key="11255202" e.c. word: inexorable **Other examples:** // an inexorable opponent; a feeling of inexorable doom // media type="custom" key="11807270"
 * EXAMPLE ** sentence from the book:**:** p. 72 - “The **//inexorable//** finger underwent no change.”

e.c. word: opulence p. 46 – “”There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic (agitated) **//opulence//**.” ** Other example sentence: “ ** The estate had formerly belonged to a gentleman of **//opulence//** and taste, who had bestowed some considerable attention to the adornment of his grounds.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe, //Uncle Tom’s Cabin// media type="custom" key="11597080"

e.c. word: sordid p. 37 “All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its (poverty's) **//sordid//** reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.” media type="custom" key="11514466"

e.c. word: capacious p. 34 - “He rubbed his hands; adjusted his **//capacious//** waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shoes to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice: ‘Yo ho, there! Ebeneezer!’” media type="custom" key="11494862"

14th word: (to) recoil p. 67 - “ He **//recoiled//** in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed; a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up…” **Other example:** //to **recoil** from the sight of blood// media type="custom" key="11765202"

13th word: obscure p. 64 - “They left the busy scene, and went into an **//obscure//** part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he recognized its situation and its bad repute.” **Other examples:** //a// // n **obscure** village off in the country somewhere; My sister's husband likes **obscure** Anime movies as well as Japanese punk rock. //

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12th word: (to) wane **Other example sentence:** //Then, as the afternoon shadows were// // waning, the party again took to the canoes and paddled on up the river. // media type="custom" key="11635036"
 * EXAMPLE ** sentence from the book:**:** p. 62 - “‘Lead on!’ said Scrooge. ‘Lead on! The night is **//waning//** fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!’”

11th word: affront p. 57 – “”…he would have made a feint of endeavouring (trying) to seize you, which would have been an **//affront//** to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.” media type="custom" key="11635032"
 * Other example sentence: **// Turning his back on me was a deliberate **affront**. //

10th word: dogged p. 44 – “”Scrooge entered timidly, and hung his head before this Spirit. He was not the **//dogged//** Scrooge he had been; and though its eyes were clear and kind, he did not like to meet them.” media type="custom" key="11574732"
 * Other example sentence: **// His **dogged** persistence was constant and unwavering. //

9th word: tumultuous p. 39 “The noise in this room was perfectly **//tumultuous//**, for there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count: and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself life forty.” (allusion to poem by William Wordsworth called “Written in March”) media type="custom" key="11530880"

8th word: dirge p. 25–– “The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful **//dirge//**; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night.” media type="custom" key="11478826"

7th word: (to) fetter / fettered p. 23 – “ ‘You are **//fettered//**,’ said Scrooge, trembling. ‘Tell me why.’“ media type="custom" key="11413430"

6th word: tacit / tacitly p. 17 – “With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and **//tacitly//** admitted the fact (that it was time to go home) to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat.” // She indicated tacit approval by smiling and winking. // // By not reprimanding us for our antics, Mrs. Reimer showed her tacit approval of the pterodactyl game. //
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5th word: (to) regale p. 17 – “The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge’s keyhole to **//regale//** him with a Christmas carol...” media type="custom" key="11348696"

4th word: misanthropic p. 17 – “The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned into **//misanthropic//** ice.” “Reuben, a moody man, and **//misanthropic//** because unhappy, strode onward with his usual stern brow and downcast eye, feeling few regrets...” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, //Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories// media type="custom" key="11348436"
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3rd word: homage p. 15– “But I have made the trial in **//homage//** to Christmas, and I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last.” media type="custom" key="11317586"
 * Other EXAMPLE ** sentence: // T he musician paid a jazzy-classical **homage** to the Gershwin brothers in a rousing concert. //

2nd word: morose p. 13 – “What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be **//morose//**? You’re rich enough”
 * Other example ** sentences: // He sat in moody silence //, a morose and unsociable manner.

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1st word: **covetous (adj.)** having or showing a great desire to possess something, typically something belonging to someone else: //she fingered the linen with covetous hands//.

p. 12 – “Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, **//covetous//** old Sinner!” media type="custom" key="11255026"