GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Charles Dickens
VOCABULARY
callous, malign, ill-willed, lacking in compassion, uncaring, mean,
hardened, unfeeling, hard- hearted, cold-hearted, malevolent, ill-disposed
towards others
greed for money, avarice, avariciousness, mercenary, covetousness,
meanness, lacking in generosity, miser, miserliness, devoid of any
benevolence, ungiving, an inordinate desire to accumulate wealth
isolation, outsider, outcast, aloneness, solitary existence, without
company, remote from society, not gregarious, reclusive
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Charles Dickens
VOCABULARY
callous, malign, ill-willed, lacking in compassion, uncaring, mean,
hardened, unfeeling, hard- hearted, cold-hearted, malevolent, ill-disposed
towards others
greed for money, avarice, avariciousness, mercenary, covetousness,
meanness, lacking in generosity, miser, miserliness, devoid of any
benevolence, ungiving, an inordinate desire to accumulate wealth
isolation, outsider, outcast, aloneness, solitary existence, without
company, remote from society, not gregarious, reclusive