"A Christmas Carol" Play Vocab

Match the following

• Altered

• adj. determined

• Malcontent

• adj. disagreeable, unreasonable

• Resolute

• n. a person who is always unhappy

• Impossible

• adj. greedy and jealous

• Covetous

• adj. changed

Match the following

• Dispelled

• v. to make a great effort, try very hard

• Earnest

• n. a greedy person who refuses to spend money, even at expense of comfort

• Infinitely

• adj. serious and heartfelt, not joking

• Strive

• v. driven away, scattered

• Miser

• adj. enormously, remarkably

Match the following

• Morose

• adj. gloomy, ill-tempered

• Timid

• adj. having the same direction or nature; similar

• Circumstance

• v. to depict or describe something/

  someone in a particular way

• Parallel

• adj. not bold or confident, shy; fearful

• Portray

• n. an event that causes something to happen, often a negative or undesirable result

Match the following

• Neglect

• v. to work hard to achieve a goal

• Endeavor

• adj. likely to be the case or happen

• Probable

• v. to move forward slowly but with a strength of purpose

• Profit

• v. to pay little attention to, to fail to take care of

• Forge

• n. the amount of money a business earns after deducting its expenses

Match the following

• Endeavor

• n. the act or result of not taking care of something

• Circumstance

• n. a person’s financial or material welfare

• Profit

• n. the effort to achieve something over a long period of time

• Neglect

• adj. not able to occur, exist, or be done

• Impossible

• v. to gain something from an experience

Which two terms could be considered synonyms for each other?

• Endeavor

• Dispell

• Strive

• Neglect

He was a ​ (a)   old man, always wanting want others’ had.

• covetous
• morose
• timid
• resolute

My visiting Aunt was simply ​ (a)   --she complained about everything!

• impossible
• miser
• resolute
• timid

That movie critic is such a ​ (a)   --I don’t think she’s ever seen a film she liked.

• malcontent
• miser
• morose
• earnest

That ​ (a)   bundled up in four layers of clothes instead of turning up the heat by two degrees.

• miser
• malcontent
• morose
• covetous