A Christmas Carol Stave 1 and 2 Vocabulary Review

No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him the time, no man or woman ever in all his life ______ the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge.

• unhallowed

• inquired

• obsuring

• derived

• homage

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, ______ everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.

• unhallowed

• inquired

• obscuring

• derived

• homage

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my ______ hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for.

• unhallowed

• inquired

• obscuring

• derived

• homage

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

There are many things from which I might have ______ good by which I have not profited, I dare say. Christmas among the rest.

• unhallowed

• inquired

• obscuring

• derived

• homage

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

We have never had any quarrel to which I have been a party. But I have made the trial in ______ to Christmas, and I’ll keep my Christmas humor to the last.

• unhallowed

• inquired

• obscuring

• derived

• homage

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

It was a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night. He was ______ to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth.

• destitute

• carol

• obliged

• dread

• caustic

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“How now!” said Scrooge, ______ and cold as ever. “What do you want with me? Who are you?”

• destitute

• carol

• obliged

• dread

• caustic

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold, stooped down at Scrooge’s keyhole to regale him with a Christmas ______.

• destitute

• carol

• obliged

• dread

• caustic

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, it is usually desirable we should make some provision for the poor and ______, who suffer greatly at the present time.

• destitute

• carol

• obliged

• dread

• caustic

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable ______, that, as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing.

• destitute

• carol

• obliged

• dread

• caustic

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4