A Christmas Carol Vocab - Definitions

Greedy, eagerly desiring another person's belongings

• Destitute

• Pessimistic

• Covetous

• Ruddy

Red (especially said of a complexion)

• Scarlet

• Ruddy

• Incredulous

• Incessant

Respect or awe

• veneration

• ruddy

• destitute

• melancholy

Poor; lacking the necessities of life

• veneration

• opaque

• benevolent

• destitute

Depressing, gloomy, sad

• benevolent

• covetous

• melancholy

• genial

Skeptical; unable to accept what is offered as true

• incredulous

• Stagnant

• Odious

• Covetous

never-ending; continuous

• Penance

• Precepts

• Incessant

• Realistic

a deed done to make up for wrongdoing

• Regret

• Penance

• Odious

• Destitute

Not transparent, not clear

• Opaque

• Ruddy

• Glassy

• Supplication

A plea or pray

• aspiration

• destitute

• tumult

• supplication