"a christmas carol" vocab Flashcards

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sole

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only or lone; single

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implore

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to beg; to ask earnestly

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trifle

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a thing of little value, amount, or importance

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bleak

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dark, cold, barren (empty); hopeless

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palpable

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able to be seen or felt; so intense that it seems able to be seen or felt

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-able/ible

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capable of

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derive

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to take or receive or obtain

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de-

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down; away

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ominous

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foreshadowing, evil; foreboding

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misanthropic

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marked by, hatred or contempt for humankind

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mis

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bad or worry, antropos, man

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sullen

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dismal; gloomy, resentful, silent

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congenial

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pleasant, sociable

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co/con/com

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together, with

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tacit

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expressed without words; expressed through acts or through silence

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melancholy

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expressive or sadness or depression or mind or spirit

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fancy

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imagination

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bestow

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give, award

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linger

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to stay in a place longer than nexesarry, often because of a reluctance to leave

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benevolence

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kindness, goodness

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bene

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good

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aparition

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a ghost or ghost like image; spirit; spector