Word packs

A Christmas Carol: words to know

The 30 words from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens that a new reader is least likely to know, in the order they first appear. Read the book free, with these words explained, at wordyspot.com/classics/a-christmas-carol.

2 pages · 30 words

Page 1Words 1–25

  • preface
  • endeavoured
  • humour
  • themselves
  • haunt
  • clerk
  • scrooge
  • dismal
  • candle
  • humbug
  • spectre
  • ebenezer
  • ding
  • dong
  • curtains
  • fiddler
  • robe
  • goose
  • pudding
  • plump
  • scarcely
  • parlour
  • indeed
  • thy
  • stave