In this excerpt from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, identify the meaning of the underlined words based on their context. T
hen choose the word that has the same meaning. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
The word intercourse means
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The word principle means
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The word possessed means
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It is true that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them. This is probably because they try to focus on distant objects and often ignore the things that come in their view before them.
