A Christmas Carol: Scrooge & Marley Vocab

to ask, beg

• implore

• earnest

• askew

• endeavor

the pattern that someone walks

• gait

• apparition

• donned

• provision

gloomy, as a person or a mood

• morose

• misanthrope

• malcontent

• destitute

gloomy, dreary, cheerless

• dismal

• stingy

• meager

• deliquesce

a gain or advantage

• profit

• ponderous

• odious

• benevolence

a supply of something

• surplus

• provision

• benevolence

• meager

trying hard to achieve something

• endeavoring

• reclamation

• budensome

• profit

more than necessary

• surplus

• benevolence

• implored

• deliquesce

a person who hates people

• misanthrope

• dismal

• destitute

• donned

a person who is dissatisfied; to be dissatisfied

• malcontent

• ponderous

• meager

• odious