Question

What is the meaning of the word bleak based on its context in this excerpt from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol?

And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants . . .

huge
gloomy
noisy
mountainous

Answer 1

Answer: gloomy

Step-by-step explanation:

What is the meaning of the word bleak based on its context in this excerpt from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol?

And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants

A. huge

B. gloomy

C. noisy

D. mountainous

Answer 2

Gloomy would be closest to bleak.