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Chapter 1 Vocabulary
The Great Gatsby
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Buoyant | 1 tending to float a liquid. 2 capable of keeping a body afloat, as a liquid. 3 not easily depressed; cheerful. 4 cheering or invigorating |
| Complacency | a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc. |
| Deft | dexterous, nimble, skillfull, clever |
| Feigned | 1 to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of. 2 to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse. 3 to imitate deceptively |
| Fractious | refractory or unruly. readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome |
| Levity | 1 lightness of mind, character, or behavior, lack of appropriate seriousness earnestness. 2 an instance or exhibition of this. 3 fickleness. 4 lightness of weight |