Name______________________________________________ Period___________
WORKSHEET
A Christmas Carol Vocabulary over Act 1
Directions: Column B has quotes directly from Charles Dickens’s play. Use the PURPLE BOOK (pages
602-611) to find the definitions and write the definitions in for Column B. Then match the bold,
underlined vocabulary words with their definitions in Column A.
Column A
_____1. _____________________
good or kind
_____2. _____________________
to profit by receiving something good
Column B
a. Marley must carry around a ponderous chain
because every bad deed he did in his life added
another link onto the chain, and Marley did a lot of
bad deeds.
b. Scrooge’s clerk, Cratchit, would benefit greatly
from a raise. If only Scrooge would help him out.
_____3. _____________________
a person who gives helps people or institutions
c. “”It is more than usually desirable that we should
make some slight provision for the poor and
destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.”
_____4. _____________________
A blessing, usually at the end of a church service,
asking for a blessing or goodness
d. Most religions will include some kind of
benediction at some point in the worship service.
_____5. _____________________
VERY heavy; bulky
_____6. _____________________
gloomy; ill tempered
e. Scrooge says, “Bah! Humbug!” a lot in the play
because he is the, “misanthrope, the malcontent,
the miser.”
f. “Mankind was my business. The common
welfare was my business; charity, mercy,
benevolence, were, all, my, business.”
g. “What right have you to be dismal? What reason
have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.”
_____7. _____________________
a person who hates or distrusts everyone
_____8. _____________________
total emptiness
_____9. _____________________
asked or begged earnestly
h. “No light at all…no moon…that is what is at the
center of a Christmas Eve: dead black: void…”
i. “ No beggars implored him to bestow a
[donation], no children ever ask him what it is
o’clock, no man or woman, now or ever in his life,
not once, inquire the way to such and such a place.”
j. Many college sports stadiums and gyms are
named after a benefactor who donated money to
the college.
_____10. _____________________
people living in complete poverty
****words that contain the root --bene-- have something to do with good****
Name______________________________________________ Period___________
Synonyms:
Circle the word that is most SIMILAR in meaning to the vocab. word.
11. Morose:
happy
gloomy
dead
12. Ponderous
light
heavy
invisible
13. Destitute
rich
hard worker
poor
14. Benevolence
group
nastiness
giving
15. Void
fullness
emptiness
open
16. Misanthrope
hater
one who loves
teacher
Use it in a sentence:
Word Bank: implored
fill in the blank with the vocab. word that best completes each sentence.
morose
destitute
misanthrope
void
ponderous
benevolence
17. Scrooge is a wealthy ________________________________ who refuses to help anyone.
18. Charities depend on people’s _____________________ to raise money to help others and do their work.
19. The deck collapsed under the _________________________ weight of the hot tub filled with water.
20. When someone is crying or frowning, you can infer that he or she is __________________________.
21. The loss of her husband left a large _____________________ in the woman’s life.
22. The homeless person _________________________ the business person for some cash to buy a meal.
23. The investor lost all his money in a bad investment and was left ______________________________.
****words that contain the root --bene-- have something to do with good****