Christmas Carol Challenge Vocabulary

Benevolent

• A ghost or ghost like figure

• Kindly

• Poor or lacking means

• Jolly and happy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Destitute

• Kindly

• A ghost or ghost like figure

• Jolly and happy

• Poor or lacking means

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Redemption

• Poor and without means

• Jolly and happy

• Saving or being saved from sin or wrongdoing

• Begging

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Allegory

• A story will a hidden moral

• Being alone or isolated

• Kindly or generous

• Poor and without means

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Misanthrope

• Alone and isolated

• Jolly and happy

• Poor and without means

• Someone who hates humanity

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Morality

• Poor or without means

• A sense of what is right or wrong

• Jolly and happy

• showing annoyance at unfair treatment

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Gothic

• Kind and jolly

• A genre characterised by mystery, the supernatural and gloom

• Poor or without means

• Inappropriate use of humour

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Omniscient

• A sense of right and wrong

• Evil

• Jolly and happ

• All knowing and all seeing

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Epiphany

• A sudden moment of relaisation

• Reluctant to spend money

• Sad, mournful

• A hatred of humanity

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Solitary

• Alone, lonely

• Sad and mournful

• Jolly and happy

• Poor and without means

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4