A Christmas Carol Vocab

Question 1

Covetous

Answer 1

POS: Adjective
D: having or showing a great desire (want) to possess something belonging to someone else
UIAS: I was covetous when I saw my friend’s new phone.
S: Envious

Question 2

Gait

Answer 2

POS: Noun
D: A person’s way of walking
UIAS: My legs were hurting from my unique gait.
S: manner of walking/walking

Question 3

Implored

Answer 3

POS: Verb
D: To ask for something earnestly or desperately
UIAS: I was stranded on the side of the rode and I implored to cars for help.
S: Begged

Question 4

Morose

Answer 4

POS: Adjective
D: Gloomy ; ill-tempered
UIAS: It was a very morose atmosphere at the Presidents funeral
S: Gloomy

Question 5

Impropriety

Answer 5

POS: Noun
D: Failing to be honest; improper behavior
UIAS: His impropriety to his mother got him in trouble. - The guests impropriety disgusted the host.
S: Dishonesty/Improper

Question 6

Parliament

Answer 6

POS: Noun
D: a meeting for the discussion of public issues: a council in early medieval England
UIAS: The Patriots had no say in the English Parliament back in the 1700s.
S: Government

Question 7

Homage

Answer 7

POS: Noun
D: special honor or respect
UIAS: I paid homage to my father because I look up to him and the way he is always positive about things.
S: Tribute

Question 8

Destitute

Answer 8

POS: Adjective
D: Lacking the necessities to survive
UIAS: If you are homeless you are most likely poor and destitute.
S: Impoverished

Question 9

Misanthrope

Answer 9

POS: Noun
D: Person who hates or distrusts humankind.
UIAS: He was a misanthrope because of his traumatic childhood.
S: Cynic

Question 10

Void

Answer 10

POS: Noun
D: To contain nothing
UIAS: The black hole was a void.
POS: Verb
D: Total emptiness
UIAS: The cashier voided the double scan of bananas.
S: Emptiness

Question 11

Ponderous

Answer 11

POS: Adjective
D: Something of very great weight; extremely heavy; to walk or move in an awkward way due to heaviness
UIAS: The man walked in a ponderous way as he walked while trying to move the couch.
S: Heavy

Question 12

Benevolence

Answer 12

POS: Noun
D: The quality of being kind
UIAS: She showed me benevolence when she held the door open for me.
S: Kindliness

Question 13

Insomniac

Answer 13

POS: Noun
D: an individual who cannot sleep or struggles to stay asleep; one who has insomnia
UIAS: My father is an insomniac when he is excited about something.
S: Awake

Question 14

Bleak

Answer 14

POS: Adjective
D: cold and miserable
UIAS: The room was very bleak and had no decoration.
S: Bare

Question 15

Surplus

Answer 15

POS: Noun
D: an extra amount of something that was leftover
UIAS:I had a surplus of $2 when my parents gave me $10 to buy supplies for a lemonade stand.
POS: Adjective
D: Excess or additional
UIAS: The store owner surplussed some of the extra bananas in the store.
S: Excess

Question 16

Dispelled

Answer 16

POS: Verb
D: the act of making something disappear (past tense of dispel)
UIAS: He saw a ghost and when he blinked it had dispelled.
S: Disappear

Question 17

Malcontent

Answer 17

POS: Noun
D: A person who is dissatisfied
UIAS: Some people can never get enough and no one likes them because they are malcontent.
POS: Adjective
D: To be dissatisfied
UIAS: He was malcontent was the fact that he got a 63% on his math test.
S: Complainer/Dissatisfied

Question 18

Miser

Answer 18

POS: Noun
D: a person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible.
UIAS: I’m glad my boss isn’t a miser, I get $200 a week!
S: Hoarder

Question 19

Toil

Answer 19

POS: Verb
D: to work extremely hard
UIAS: He toiled away when he wrote a 10 page essay.
POS: Noun
D: long strenuous and fatiguing labor
UIAS: Farming and working the fields is toil.
S: Labor

Question 20

Odious

Answer 20

POS: Adjective
D: Causing or deserving hatred
UIAS: Ebeneezer Scrooge is odious because he never helps anyone.
S: Revolting