A Christmas Carol: Stave One Vocabulary

bedlam

• Time for kids to go to bed

• Insane asylum

• Curfew

• Government office of someone to control unruly children

caustic

• Bitter, sharp, biting

• Delicious

• Sour, tart

• Sweet, Savory, Juicy

dismal

• Happy, gleeful, cheery

• Gloomy, dark, bleak, dreary

• Confused, uncertain, questioning

• Sad, bummed, bored

facetious

• bitter, sharp, biting

• gloomy, dark, bleak, dreary

• hesitation

• joking, humorous

kindred spirits

• a strange figure appearing suddenly and thought to be a ghost

• a person who receives the remainder of an estate after specific bequests have 

  been paid 

• two who are alike in spirit and/or attitude

• something that seems to appear to the sight but has no physical existence; something 

  that exists only in the mind; an illusion

ponderous

• generosity

• very heavy, bulky, massive 

• hesitation

• ill-tempered, gloomy, sullen 

gruel

• a thin porridge

• green eggs and ham

• mean or nasty

• bitter, sharp, biting

incessant

• never ceasing; continuing or being repeated without stopping or in a way that seems 

  endless 

• gloomy, dark, bleak, dreary

• two who are alike in spirit and/or attitude

• able to be touched or felt

irresolution

• confusion

• hesitation

• stubbornness

• sadness

liberality

• greediness

• hesitation

• generosity

• confusion