Name______________________________
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A Christmas Carol Vocabulary Practice Test (Stave 1)
Word Bank
balustrade
misanthropic
shillings
dog days
morose
solemnized
gaily
palpable
tacitly
impropriety
portly
legatee
resolute
veneration
DIRECTIONS: Complete the sentence with the correct vocabulary word, as
used in the context. Use each word only once.
1. I ran to the edge but was stopped by the_______________________.
2. The little girl was chattering ___________________ all the way home.
3. The will appoints Mr. Smith her executor, and you the residuary _________.
4. Daniel seems very _______________ and gloomy.
5. He was a ___________________ man, red-faced and always panting.
6. Coal used to cost 3 __________________ a sack.
7. Her voice sounded calm and _________________.
8. I acquired lasting respect for tradition and veneration for the past.
9. He _______________admitted that the government had breached regulations.
10.
The tension among the audience was ___________________.
11.
The ____________________of August are upon us.
12.
His father was a _____________________ but successful businessman.
13.
I was surprised by the __________________ of his remarks.
14.
She treated his friends with remarkable _________________.
15.
“Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was
an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and _______________
it with an undoubted bargain.