Christmas Carol Vocab.
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- obscure
- not well-known
- to penetrate
- to enter as by piercing
- to flaunt
- to make a showy or defiant display
- defiance
- open resistence to authority
- odious
- hateful; disgusting; offensive
- immortal
- without death; lasting
- relenting
- a form of to relent which means to become less severe
- to reconcile
- to renew a friendship; to bring into harmony
- blithe
- cheerful; carefree
- to feign
- to pretend
- to recede
- to become more distant
- fettered
- past tense of to fetter which means to shackle or chain
- to remonstrate
- to protest; to complain
- latent
- hidden and undeveloped
- jovial
- full of playful good humor
- prodigious
- amazing
- compound
- a substance composed of two or more other substaces
- reverently
- in a manner suggesting deep respect
- desolation
- a wasteland or some other uninhabited place
- executor
- a person appointed to cary out the terms of a will
- to remonstate
- to protest; to complain
- incredulous
- unwilling or unable to believe; showing disbelief
- to extinguish
- to squelch; to put out as a fire
- garret
- an attic or a room built in an attic
- ominous
- serving as an omen especially an evil omen
- incessant
- unending; constant
- benevolence
- good will or kindness
- to lament
- to feel or express deep sorrow
- facetious
- joking; trying to be witty
- palpable
- touchable; obvious
- nothing
- nothing