Stave Three Vocabulary
Listed in alphabetical order
Stave Three (Pages 34-53)
Appall (vt.) - to horrify, dismay, or shock
Page 52 "Scrooge started back, appalled."
Apprehensive (adj.) - anxious; uneasy
Page 35 " ...And was sometimes apprehensive that he might at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion..."
Genial (adj.) - cheerful and friendly; amiable
Page 36 "Its dark brown curls were long and free: free as its genial face, demeanour, and its joyful air."
Intervention (n.) - an intervening
Page 34 "... for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger dispatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention"
Penitence (n.) - sorry for having done wrong and willing to atone
Page 43 "Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit, and was overcome by penitence and grief."
Page 52 "Scrooge started back, appalled."
Apprehensive (adj.) - anxious; uneasy
Page 35 " ...And was sometimes apprehensive that he might at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion..."
Genial (adj.) - cheerful and friendly; amiable
Page 36 "Its dark brown curls were long and free: free as its genial face, demeanour, and its joyful air."
Intervention (n.) - an intervening
Page 34 "... for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger dispatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention"
Penitence (n.) - sorry for having done wrong and willing to atone
Page 43 "Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the spirit, and was overcome by penitence and grief."