An old businessman

Ebeneezer Scrooge

Scrooge's clerk and office worker

Bob Cratchit

Scrooge's former business partner who is dead

Jacob Marley

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Scrooge's nephew and only living relative

Fred

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an office worker who copies documents or does small tasks

Clerk

a person who hoards money and hates to spend it

Miser

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cheerful or relating to a celebration

Festive

nonsense; something fake or foolish

Humbug

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a traditional Christmas song

Carol

a harsh government building for the poor in Victorian England

Workhouse

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see-through; ghost-like

Transparent

a metal piece on a door used to announce a visitor

Knocker

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to shake in fear

Tremble

a ghost or spirit

Phantom

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someone who learns a job or skill from a master

Apprentice

giving help or money to those in need

Charity

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in this text, a memory or image from the past

Shadow

a person to whom someone is engaged to be married

Fiancée

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