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This 78-word vocabulary word search draws language from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, designed for Grades 9–12. Hidden words span key scenes and themes—countinghouse, apparition, gruel, and morose—reflecting the novella's characters and moral arc. Use it as a Christmas literature unit activity, a vocabulary reinforcement during assigned reading, or as a template for other classic-fiction word searches.

Subject:
Holidays & Seasonal
Topic:
Christmas
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated November 2018

Word List

  • LORDMAYOR
  • PAGENT
  • FALTERED
  • TRIFFLE
  • RASHLEY
  • RUDDY
  • BRAZIER
  • TREMULOUS
  • PROFFERING
  • ESTABLISHMENTS
  • ENDEAVORING
  • VIGORPROVISION
  • SHILLINGS
  • NOTWITHSTANDING
  • HOMAGE
  • RESOLUTE
  • IMPROPRIETY
  • VENERATION
  • SUSCEPTIBLE
  • BESTOWED
  • FAIN
  • IMPLORINGLY
  • PONDEROUS
  • WAISTCOAT
  • SCRIPTURES
  • GRUEL
  • DISMAL
  • GAILY
  • INTIMATION
  • WHEREFORE
  • CORDIALLY
  • SALLIED
  • COUNTENANCE
  • EXPECTANT
  • TACITY
  • IMPENETRABLE
  • BANKERSBOOK
  • APPARITION
  • COALBOX
  • TANK
  • COUNTINGHOUSE
  • TRIFLE
  • GLADSOME
  • SELFACCUSATORY
  • EMTREATY
  • OYSTER
  • SOLITARY
  • MOROSE
  • IRRESOLUTION
  • REMORSE
  • DEFERENCE
  • ROVED
  • LUSTY
  • SWOON
  • LEGION
  • DIVERT
  • MARROW
  • INEXPRESSIBLY
  • SPECTRA
  • WAGGISH
  • SHADE
  • CAUSTIC
  • INCREDULOUS
  • PENANCE
  • INCESSANT
  • INEXPLICABLE
  • MECHANCHOLY
  • HUMBUG
  • IDLE
  • LAMENTATION
  • LUMBERROOM
  • DISMAYED
  • FORBEARANCE
  • BENEVOLANCE
  • LIVID
  • COIL
  • GIRDED
  • FETTERED

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