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Great Gatsby #1
Shaw's Gatsby vocabulary 1-52
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abortive | fruitless, unsuccessful |
| fractiousness | tendency to be troublesome |
| languidly | lacking force or quickness of movement |
| extemporizing | improvising |
| peremptory | expressive of urgency or command |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| contiguous | adjacent |
| proprietary | characteristic of one that possesses or owns |
| ectoplasm | substance held to produce materialization of spirit |
| hauteur | arrogance, haughtiness |
| feigned | pretended |
| levity | lack of seriousness |
| plagiaristic | ideas taken from others and passed off as one’s own |
| impressionability | sensitivity |
| elations | feelings of exultant joy |
| proximity | nearness |
| anticlimax | a descent, as in a series of events, that is in disappointing contrast to a preceding rise |
| supercilious | full of pride or scorn |
| compulsion | that which compels |
| incredulously | in disbelief |
| reciprocal | done, felt, given in return |
| contemptuously | scornfully |
| unobtrusively | not calling attention to oneself in a displeasing way |
| inconsequence | quality of not proceeding in a logical sequence |
| intimation | hint |
| transcendent | extraordinary |
| indeterminate | indefinite, uncertain |
| apathetically | indifferently, listlessly |
| incessant | continuing or being repeated without stopping |
| strident | harsh-sounding, shrill, grating |
| cataracts | strong floods or rushes or water |
| harlequin | of many colors |
| permeate | to penetrate and spread through |
| innuendo | an indirect remark, reference, or gesture, usually implying something derogatory |
| prodigality | quality of extreme abundance, generosity |
| apparition | anything that appears suddenly or unexpectedly |
| caterwauling | making a shrill, screeching sound |
| subterfuges | any plans used to hide one’s true objective or evade a difficult situation |
| punctilious | very careful about every detail of behavior or ceremony |
| labyrinth | maze |
| disconcerting | upsetting, embarrassing |
| luxuriated | grew with vigor and in great abundance |
| somnambulatory | in a sleepwalking state |
| abstraction | mental withdrawal; absentmindedness |
| denizen | frequenter of a particular place |
| unfathomable | measureless |
| façade | the front part of a building |
| tortuously | marked as repeated twists, bends, or turns |
| vinous | relating to wine |
| nonolfactory | nonoderous |
| anteroom | outer room |
| disembodied | to divest of a body, of corporeal existence |
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mzshaw
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