Lesson 3: Philanthropy in A Christmas Carol
Handout 2

A Christmas Carol Vocabulary

Stave One
covetous incredulous comforter
stave anonymous apparition
beguiled specter melancholy
caustic fancy incessant
phenomenon inexplicable hob
bowels    
Stave Two
opaque repentance porter
capacious jovial negus
Stave Three
compulsion inaudible twelfth-cakes
tremulous plaintive rampant
odious supposition livid
menagerie dowerless  
Stave Four
trivial persevere charwomen
province precepts propitiation
Stave Five
recompense feign Walk-ER
array transports munificence