A Christmas Carol: Vocabulary- Stave Three and Four

12 vocabulary terms

ubiquitous

seeming to be everywhere at once

rampant

reading up like a horse; high-spirited

prodigiously

enormously; causing amazement or wonder

prostrate

laid low; weak and helpless; defeated

pendulous

hanging loosely

excrescence

abnormal growth

dominion

place of authority

odious

disgusting; offensive; utterly detestable

relenting

becoming less severe

creditor

person to whom money is owed

inexorable

inflexible; impossible to stop or prevent

intercedes

intervene on behalf of another