A Christmas Carol Vocabulary Review

Carter took on a challenging new ____________selling Christmas trees this year.

Scrooge's ___________________appearance matched his unpleasant, dried up, bitter personality.

• implored

• tight-fisted

• shriveled

• mournful

Scrooge was the only _________________at Jacob Marley's funeral.

• solitary

• self-contained

• mourner

• enemy

Alex secretly____________________ the X-box Kailas got for his birthday the way Scrooge _____________other people's money.

Scrooge was so _____________________ he refused to give money to the poor and thought it was better that they should "die and decrease the surplus population."

Oysters are __________________ in their own shell, just like Scrooge was ___________________, shutting out his nephew and other people in his solitary life.

• self-contained

• emphatically

• solitary

• shrewd

Scrooge ____________________ tried to convince Belle that caring about money was important, but his change was too great and she left him.

• implored

• tight-fistedly

• shrewdly

• emphatically

Scrooge, a solitary and broken man, ________________ the Ghost of Christmas Past to take him home when the memories of his past and behavior were too much to bear.

• emphatically

• shriveled

• implored

• tight-fisted

When Scrooge saw the ___________________ little boy he was, alone in the schoolroom, he was saddened and reminded of how lonely he was as a child.

• shriveled

• tight-fisted

• shrewd

• solitary

Scrooge and Marley's __________________business tactics made them very wealthy while their customers grew more poor.

• shrewd

• shriveled

• self-contained

• solitary