A Christmas Carol Vocab
Terms
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- executor
- one who carries out the terms of a will
- extinguished
- put out, as a fire
- ominous
- threatining, serving as an omen
- facetious
- joking
- livid
- grayish blue
- incredulous
- unable to believe
- ponderous
- heavy
- incessant
- unending
- benevolence
- kindness
- receded
- became more distant
- reverently
- with deep respect
- remonstrated
- protested, complained
- latent
- hidden and undeveloped
- capacious
- roomy
- jovial
- jolly, good-natured
- corroborated
- confirmed
- avarice
- greed
- adamant
- unyielding, stubborn
- execrable
- detestable
- inaudible
- unable to be heard
- prostrate
- laid low, weak and helpless, defeated
- pendulous
- hanging loosely
- obscure
- not well known
- infamous
- having a bad reputation
- sepulchres
- tombs
- defiance
- challenge to authority
- plunder
- stolen goods
- detestation
- hatred
- dominion
- place of authority
- odious
- disgusting, offensive
- immortal
- never dying
- relenting
- becoming less severe
- creditor
- person to whom money is owed
- inexorable
- inflexible, unrelenting
- alteration
- change
- intercedes
- acts to help others
- recompensed
- rewarded
- blithe
- carefree, cheerful
- unanimity
- agreement by all
- feign
- pretend