A Christmas Carol

• Scrooge was stingy with his money when the two portly gentlemen came for charity.
• Scrooge didn't replace the sign with his and Marley's name on it after 7 years of Marley being dead.
• Scrooge believed in decreasing the 'surplus populations'.
• Scrooge was 'as solitary as an oyster'
• Marley comes to Scrooge to warn him change that if he doesn't change his ways he will end up with the same fate as him.
• Marley is bound by the chains he 'forged in life'.
• abundance


  Wealth; a lot of something

  
• charitable


  giving in generosity

  
• currency


  money

  
• emerge


  to appear

  
• endeavor


  to try

  
• finale


  the concluding part

  
• incoherent


  not understandable

  
• macabre


  suggesting of death or decay

  
• mortal


  of the earth; human

  
• odious


  deserving dislike or hate

  
• pledge


  to promise

  
• provision


  a supply of needs

  
• reassurance


  to build someone's confidence

  
• solitude


  being alone

  
• summon


  to call or order to come

  
• surplus


  to have more than needed

  
• transform


  change form or appearance
• welfare


  well-being

  
• covetous


  greedy
• gait


  a way of walking or running
• bestow


  to give or present, especially as a gift or an honor
• implored


  asked or begged earnestly
• morose


  gloomy; ill-tempered
• resolute


  having or showing a strong will and determination
• destitute


  living in complete poverty
• malcontent


  dissatisfied, especially with an established authority
• insomniac


  inability to sleep
• misanthrope


  a person who hates or distrusts everyone
• forbearance


  patience; tolerance
• benevolence


  an inclination to do good
• penance


  a voluntary act of remorse for sins or wrongdoing
• procuring


  to obtain or acquire
• ponderous


  very heavy; bulky; describes something as massively large and heavy - often moves or is carried in a clumsy way due to its size.
• void


  total emptiness