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Gatsby 3 - Ch 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apparition | vision, ghost |
| ascertain | to determine, find out |
| convivial | festive |
| cordial | warm, heartfelt |
| corpulent | stout, rotund, obese |
| credulity | tendency to belief readily (on slight evidence) |
| deplorable | lamentable, reprehensible, woeful |
| erroneous | mistaken, wrong |
| florid | flamboyant, ornate; ruddy, sanguine |
| impetuous | impulsive, hotheaded, madcap |
| inept | awkward, incompetent, feckless |
| innuendo | insinuation, indirect reference (often malicious or sexual) |
| insolent | impudent, brazenly disrespectful, audacious |
| permeate | spread through |
| poignant | moving, affecting, touching the emotions |
| subterfuge | deception |
| tortuously | in a winding, circuitous manner |
| tumultuous | confused and disorderly, chaotic, riotous |
| vacuous | empty of content, inane, fatuous |
| vehemently | passionately, powerfully |
| vinous | wine-induced |
| discordant | clashing, out of tune |
| divergence | departure, moving away from |
| elude | to escape, avoid capture |
| fortnight | two weeks |
| poignant | moving, affecting |
| malevolence | ill will, malice, hatred |
| provincial | unsophisticated |
| rent | torn |
| retract | take back |