Christmas Carol Tier 2 Vocab words

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CHIEF: "The register of his burial was signed by... the chief mourner."

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main

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Synonym for INCLINED: "I might have been inclined to regard a coffinnail as the deadliest piece..."

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preference

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UNHALLOWED: "... and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it...."

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wicked

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Definition of 'permit':

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let, give permission

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Scrooge was his sole executor, administrator, friend, and mourner.

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only

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Synonym for DISMAL: "... in a dismal little cell beyond... was copying letters."

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bleak

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DREADFULLY: "And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event..."

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terribly

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Distinctly understood: "This must be distinctly understood or nothing wonderful can come from the story I am going to relate."

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clearly

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COVETOUS: "... a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner."

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jealous, greedy

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TIGHTFISTED: "Oh! But he was a tightfisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!"

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selfish, stingy