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Great Gatsby SLHS
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| Feigned | Pretend, sham, counterfeit, disguised, assumed, fictitious | adjective |
| Bantering | cleverly amusing in tone | adjective |
| Complacency | The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | noun |
| Intimation | an indirect suggestion, inkling, hint | noun |
| Supercilious | haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression. Arrogant, scornful. | adjective |
| Contiguous | touching or near, adjacent in time, bordering, adjoining | adjective |
| Languid | lacking in vigor or vitality: lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent | adjective |
| Hauteur | haughty manner or spirit; arrogance | noun |
| Prodigality | extravagant wastefulness or profuse generosity or extreme abundance | noun |
| Credulity | willingness to believe or trust too readily, esp. without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility | noun |
| Ascertain | To discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation | verb |
| Punctilious | Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct | Adjective |
| Disconcerting | To upset the self-possession of; ruffle. To frustrate (plans, for example) by throwing into disorder; disarrange. | Verb |
| Abstracted | lost in thought, deeply preoccupied; absent-minded | adjective |
| Juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast. | noun |
| Defunct | lost in thought, deeply preoccupied; not operating or functioning | adjective |
| Vestige | a very slight trace or amount of something | noun |
| Turgid | swollen; distended; inflated, overblown or pompous. | adjective |
| Contingency | dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness | noun |
| Profusion | abundance; abundant quantity | noun |
| Saunter | to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll OR a leisurely walk or ramble | verb OR Noun |
| Dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy | adjective |
| Affront | a personally offensive act or word OR to make ashamed or confused; embarrass | noun OR verb |
| Inviolate | free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage. Undisturbed or untouched | adjective |
| Presumptuous | unwarrantedly or impertinently bold; forward | adjective |
| Formidable | of great strength; forceful; powerful | adjective |
| Incessant | continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending | adjective |
| Pervaded | to become spread throughout all parts of | verb |
| Corroborate | to make more certain; confirm, prove | verb |
| Garrulous | excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, esp. about trivial matters. | adjective |
| Amorphous | lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless | adjective |
| Jaunty | easy and sprightly in manner or bearing or smartly trim, as clothing | adjective |
| Transitory | lasting only a short time; brief; short-lived; temporary | adjective |
| Fractiousness | The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline; unruliness | noun |
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Dodgefan
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