A Christmas Carol Vocab for Exams 7T

5 Written Questions

1. a shelf beside a fire to keep the kettle hot
2. poor
3. offensive
4. turmoil
5. a guide or rule for morals or action; a guideline

5 Matching Questions

1. pillaged
2. beetling
3. misanthropic
4. incredulous
5. palpable

1. a to rob (a town) of goods, especially during war
2. b disliking people or mankind in general
3. c not willing to believe, skeptical
4. d overhanging; prominent
5. e capable of being felt

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. saving; keeping warm
   1. hob
   2. hoarding
   3. avarice
   4. beetling
2. playful, joking, lighthearted
   1. facetious
   2. odious
   3. capacious
   4. covetous
3. deprive; parted from, abandoned
   1. aught
   2. latent
   3. cant
   4. bereft
4. a song or a melody of mourning, usually associated w/funerals
   1. gruel
   2. dirge
   3. sidled
   4. odious
5. burial vaults, tombs, graves
   1. pendulous
   2. precepts
   3. capacious
   4. sepulchers

5 True/False Questions

1. reclamation → rehabilitation; conversion from an unsatisfactory state

   True        False

2. intercourse → mutual dealing; communications between two people

   True        False

3. latent → insincere talk, especially about religion or morals

   True        False

4. covetous → jealously eager to possess something

   True        False

5. pommel → internal parts of an animal, such as the heart or the liver

   True        False