"a christmas carol" vocab

Question 1

sole

Answer 1

only or lone; single

Question 2

implore

Answer 2

to beg; to ask earnestly

Question 3

trifle

Answer 3

a thing of little value, amount, or importance

Question 4

bleak

Answer 4

dark, cold, barren (empty); hopeless

Question 5

palpable

Answer 5

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

Question 6

-able/ible

Answer 6

capable of

Question 7

derive

Answer 7

to take or receive or obtain

Question 8

de-

Answer 8

down; away

Question 9

ominous

Answer 9

foreshadowing, evil; foreboding

Question 10

misanthropic

Answer 10

marked by, hatred or contempt for humankind

Question 11

mis

Answer 11

bad or worry, antropos, man

Question 12

sullen

Answer 12

dismal; gloomy, resentful, silent

Question 13

congenial

Answer 13

pleasant, sociable

Question 14

co/con/com

Answer 14

together, with

Question 15

tacit

Answer 15

expressed without words; expressed through acts or through silence

Question 16

melancholy

Answer 16

expressive or sadness or depression or mind or spirit

Question 17

fancy

Answer 17

imagination

Question 18

bestow

Answer 18

give, award

Question 19

linger

Answer 19

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

Question 20

benevolence

Answer 20

kindness, goodness

Question 21

bene

Answer 21

good

Question 22

aparition

Answer 22

a ghost or ghost like image; spirit; spector