A Christmas Carol Vocabulary Review

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• implored

• tight-fisted

• shriveled

• mournful

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Scrooge was the only _________________at Jacob Marley's funeral.

• solitary

• self-contained

• mourner

• enemy

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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."

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• shrewd

• shriveled

• self-contained

• solitary

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4