Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. When the family "re-echoed" the blessing, what were they doing?

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Ghost warns of a "vacant seat" in the chimney corner. In this context, vacant means:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Scrooge is reminded of his words about the "surplus population." What does surplus mean?

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Scrooge is overcome with "penitence and grief." This suggests he feels:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Ghost tells Scrooge that if he is not "adamant" in heart, he should listen. Adamant describes someone who is:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Spirit tells Scrooge to "forbear that wicked cant." Forbear means to:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. In the phrase "wicked cant," the Ghost is referring to Scrooge's:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Scrooge "bent before the Ghost’s rebuke." A rebuke is a:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Mrs. Cratchit calls Scrooge an "odious" man. She finds him:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Scrooge is described as "the Baleful." This suggests he is:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Peter looks at the fire as if "deliberating" what investments to make. Peter is:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Tiny Tim has a "plaintive little voice." His voice sounds:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Ghost "exulted" as it moved through the streets. To exult is to:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Ghost opened its "capacious palm." This means its hand was:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Spirit outspread its "bright and harmless mirth." Mirth refers to:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Ghost and Scrooge stand on a "bleak and desert moor." In this context, desert means:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Water spread itself "wheresoever it listed." Here, listed means:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The red sun glared upon the "desolation." Desolation refers to a place that is:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. As they sang, the old man got quite "blithe." This means he became:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Spirit did not "tarry" at the miners' hut. This means the Spirit did not:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The waters "chafed and dashed" against the rocks. To chafe means to:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Spirit looks at the nephew with "approving affability." Affability is:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The text says laughter is "irresistibly contagious." A contagion is something that:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The nephew makes "extravagant contortions" with his face. Extravagant means:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The nephew's "contortions" involve:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Scrooge's niece speaks "indignantly" about his behavior. She is speaking with:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The niece is described as "provoking, you know; but satisfactory." Provoking here means:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Scrooge's nephew "revelled in another laugh." To revel is to:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The plump sister uses "aromatic vinegar." Aromatic means:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Scrooge may "rail at Christmas till he dies." To rail is to:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The nephew hopes to put Scrooge in the "vein" to leave his clerk money. Here, vein means:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Spirit taught Scrooge his "precepts." Precepts are:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The holidays appeared to be "condensed" into a short time. Condensed means:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. Scrooge sees something "protruding" from the Spirit's robe. It is:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The two children are described as "abject." This means they are:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The boy and girl are "meagre." They look:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The children are "prostrate" in their humility. This means they are:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Ghost says no "degradation" is as horrible as these children. Degradation is:

Choose the best answer for each question based on how the word is used in the provided text. The Spirit warns Scrooge not to use the children for "factious purposes." Factious means: