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A Christmas Carol: Stave One Vocabulary

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

bedlam

a)

Time for kids to go to bed

b)

Insane asylum

c)

Curfew

d)

Government office of someone to control unruly children

2.

caustic

a)

Bitter, sharp, biting

b)

Delicious

c)

Sour, tart

d)

Sweet, Savory, Juicy

3.

dismal

a)

Happy, gleeful, cheery

b)

Gloomy, dark, bleak, dreary

c)

Confused, uncertain, questioning

d)

Sad, bummed, bored

4.

facetious

a)

bitter, sharp, biting

b)

gloomy, dark, bleak, dreary

c)

hesitation

d)

joking, humorous

5.

kindred spirits

a)

a strange figure appearing suddenly and thought to be a ghost

b)

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

been paid 

c)

two who are alike in spirit and/or attitude

d)

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

that exists only in the mind; an illusion

6.

ponderous

a)

generosity

b)

very heavy, bulky, massive 

c)

hesitation

d)

ill-tempered, gloomy, sullen 

7.

gruel

a)

a thin porridge

b)

green eggs and ham

c)

mean or nasty

d)

bitter, sharp, biting

8.

incessant

a)

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

endless 

b)

gloomy, dark, bleak, dreary

c)

two who are alike in spirit and/or attitude

d)

able to be touched or felt

9.

irresolution

a)

confusion

b)

hesitation

c)

stubbornness

d)

sadness

10.

liberality

a)

greediness

b)

hesitation

c)

generosity

d)

confusion

11.

morose

a)

 ill-tempered, gloomy, sullen

b)

generosity

c)

very heavy, bulky, massive 

d)

joking, humorous

12.

palpable

a)

very heavy, bulky, massive 

b)

able to be touched or felt

c)

regret, sorrow

d)

ill-tempered, gloomy, sullen

13.

phantom

a)

a strange figure appearing suddenly and thought to be a ghost

b)

a thin porridge

c)

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

that exists only in the mind; an illusion

d)

two who are alike in spirit and/or attitude

14.

proffer

a)

regret, sorrow

b)

celebrated with formal ceremony

c)

able to be touched or felt

d)

to offer service 

15.

remorse

a)

 ill-tempered, gloomy, sullen

b)

a coating, like dew

c)

regret, sorrow

d)

celebrated with formal ceremony

16.

residuary legatee

a)

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

been paid 

b)

a coating, like dew

c)

a person who celebrates with a formal ceremony

d)

a person who offers service 

17.

rime

a)

two words that are spelled differently but sound alike

b)

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

c)

the outer shell of a mellon

d)

 a coating, like dew

18.

solemnized

a)

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

that exists only in the mind; an illusion

b)

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

endless 

c)

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

been paid 

d)

celebrated with formal ceremony

19.

apparition

a)

A shadow or outline of a possible ghost

b)

A monster of the dark

c)

a strange figure appearing suddenly and thought to be a ghost

d)

A very thin, almost starving person