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Question 1

reticent (adj)

Answer 1

keeping to yourself; not likely to draw attention to yourself; uncommunicative

eg. scrooge is reticent

Question 2

convivial (adj)

Answer 2

friendly, sociable

eg. fred’s convivial nature juxtaposed scrooges misanthropic nature

Question 3

forlorn (adj)

Answer 3

lonely, abandoned, hopeless

eg. the ghost of christmas past shows scrooge his former forlorn self.

Question 4

desolate (adj)

Answer 4

feeling very sad and lonely because of a sense of abandonment or isolation

eg. scrooge watched his desolate former self being left at school on christmas

Question 5

impecunious (adj)

Answer 5

poor