"A Christmas Carol" Play Vocab

adj. determined

adj. greedy and jealous

adj. disagreeable, unreasonable

n. a person who is always unhappy

adj. changed

v. driven away, scattered

adj. enormously, remarkably

v. to make a great effort, try very hard

n. a greedy person who refuses to spend money, even at expense of comfort

adj. serious and heartfelt, not joking

n. an event that causes something to happen, often a negative or undesirable result

adj. gloomy, ill-tempered

adj. not bold or confident, shy; fearful

v. to depict or describe something/

someone in a particular way

adj. having the same direction or nature; similar

v. to pay little attention to, to fail to take care of

v. to move forward slowly but with a strength of purpose

adj. likely to be the case or happen

n. the amount of money a business earns after deducting its expenses

v. to work hard to achieve a goal

n. the act or result of not taking care of something

n. a person’s financial or material welfare

v. to gain something from an experience

n. the effort to achieve something over a long period of time

adj. not able to occur, exist, or be done