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A Christmas Carol
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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abstinence | avoidance |
adversary | opponent |
agitated | stirred up |
alteration | change |
benevolence | generosity |
blithe | joyous |
capacious | spacious |
condescension | courteous with a superior air |
consolation | comfort |
cordially | graciously |
covetous | greedy |
destitute | penniless |
detestation | intense dislike |
disdaining | treating with scorn |
dispelled | scattered |
encompass | to surround |
essence | spirit |
execrable | very bad |
extravagance | extremely abundant |
facetious | merry |
feign | pretend |
fettered | chained |
illustrious | brilliant |
inexorable | relentless |
infamous | notoriously bad |
intercedes | pleads on another's behalf |
kindred | related |
latent | hidden |
livid | furious |
loiter | hang around |
melancholy | sadnesses |
morose | ill-humored |
obscure | vague |
odious | hateful |
officious | self-important |
ominous | threatening |
pedestrian | on foot |
portly | fat |
precepts | practical rules |
prodigiously | enormously |
recompensed | repaid |
recumbent | lying down |
relents | softens in attitude |
remonstrated | protested |
resolute | determined |
sordid | filthy |
supplication | praying |
susceptible | easily influenced |
ubiquitous | being everywhere |
unanimity | complete agreement |