Review Vocabulary Stave 2

Resolution: He resolved to lie awake until the hour was past; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power.

• solution or decision
• confusion
• method
• number of pixels in something

Lustrous: It wore a tunic of the purest white and round its waist was tied a lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beautiful

• shiny or glossy
• dull and dim
• rusted
• covered in stars

Conducive: Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a good night’s sleep would have been more conducive to that end.

• helpful
• driving a train
• leading a band
• counterproductive

Reclamation: The Spirit must have heard him thinking, for it said immediately: ``Your reclamation, then. Take heed!''

• reforming
• future
• patience
• deadline

Condescension: A terrible voice in the hall cried. ``Bring down Master Scrooge's box, there! '' and in the hall appeared the schoolmaster himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him.

• snobby and acting superior
• grumpy and annoyed
• happy and jolly
• dizziness from spinning too much

Agility: `Hilli-ho!'' cried old Fezziwig, skipping down from the high desk, with wonderful agility.

• quickness and flexibility
• able to do something
• humor
• feelings of emotion

Corroborated: He corroborated everything, remembered everything, enjoyed everything, and underwent the strangest change.

• confirmed
• denied
• collected
• celebrated

Aspirations: ``You fear the world too much,'' she answered, gently. `` I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?''

• desire to achieve something positive
• repeatedly taking deep breaths
• sweating from heat or exercise
• a type of medicine that relieves pain
• Option 2

Fraught: ``Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are,'' she returned. ``I am. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two.

• filled with anxiety or stress
• filled with great joy
• tempted
• at peace

Supposition: " If this had never been between us,'' said the girl, looking mildly, but with steadiness, upon him; ``tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now? Ah, no!'' He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of himself. But he said with a struggle, ``You think not.''

• suggested to be true, but not proven
• verbal attack
• whispers of comforting words
• court ordered document