Vocabulary for “A Christmas Carol”
Vocabulary Word
Name ______________________
Means
Stave
hit with, _________ one after
another
Stave 1
dutiful _________; reverence
Stave 1
“But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and
I’ll keep my Christmas humor to the last.”
lacking _____________ things
such as food, clothing, and
_____________
Stave 1
“…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.”
make an _________, try hard
Stave 1
“… a few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy
the poor some meat and drink…”
a former _________ of Great
Britain which was equal to 2
1/2 shillings
Stave 1
“If I was to stop half a crown for it, you’d think yourself
mightily ill-used, I’ll be bound.”
Melancholy, p. 6
condition of _____________
and low spirits; gloominess
Stave 1
“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual
melancholy tavern…”
Apparition, p. 9
supernatural sight or thing;
_____________ or phantom
Stave 1
“Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?”
Incessant, p. 9
never __________; continued
or repeated without
_______________; continual
Stave 1
“Not to know that ages of incessant labor by immortal
creatures for this earth must pass into eternity before the
good of which it is susceptible is all developed.”
Negus, p. 13
___________ made of wine,
hot water, sugar, lemon, and
____________
Stave 2
“…there was cake, there was negus…”
Pelting, p. 3
Homage, p. 5
Destitute, p. 5
Endeavoring, p. 5
Half a crown, p. 6
Example
“No wind that blew was bitterer than he no falling snow
was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less
open to entreaty.”
Vocabulary Word
Means
Stave
Engrosses, p. 14
occupy __________; take up
all the _________________ of
Stave 2
Exalted, p. 16
glorified; ______________
Stave 3
Stave 3
Ubiquitous, p. 17
that is _______________ at
the same time; ____________
everywhere
“…Master Peter and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits
went to fetch the goose…”
Hearth, p. 18
stone or brick floor of a
__________________, often
extending into the room
Stave 3
“…the hearth swept, and the fire made up.”
Imperceptibly, p. 21
that cannot be _________ or
felt; very slight gradual,
_____________ or indistinct
Stave 3
“Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and
light of heart, that he would have drank to the
unconscious company in an inaudible speech.”
Almshouse, p. 21
home for very _____ persons
supported at public expense
or, in Great Britain, by
private _____________
Stave 3
“In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery’s every
refuge…”
Shrouded, p. 22
_______________ in a cloth
or garment in which a dead
person is wrapped or dressed
for burial
_______________ by force
Stave 4
“It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which
concealed its head, its face…”
Stave 4
“…was the body of this plundered unknown man.”
__________ and cheerful;
joyous
Stave 4
“…of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, these were
the blithest in his ears.”
Plundered, p. 24
Blithe, p. 28
Example
“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one,
until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.”
“…these young Cratchits danced about the table, and
exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies…”