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The Great Gatsby
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| feign | faking a feeling (fake) |
| supercilious | showing an unpleasant attitude (arrogant) |
| conscientious | doing what is right (diligent) |
| reciprocal | doing something in return (shared) |
| complacent | a feeling of self pleasure (self-satisfied) |
| infinite | never ending (limitless) |
| intimation | giving a hint (statement) |
| anon | soon (shortly) |
| contiguous | next to or together (bordering) |
| facet | one sided (slant) |
| cower | shrink down in fear (back away) |
| interpose | to place in between something (intervene) |
| apathetic | showing no interest (unconcerned) |
| languid | slow and relaxed (unhurried) |
| imply | suggesting something that wasn't exactly stated (indirect) |
| strident | loud and sharp (screeching) |
| deft | very skilled (skillful) |
| clad | dressed (clothed) |
| permeate | to spread throughout (filter through) |
| innuendo | a suggestive hint (suggestion) |
| erroneous | wrong (incorrect) |
| vehement | showing a strong feeling (passionate) |
| cordial | friendly (genial) |
| impetuous | doing something without thought (reckless) |
| vacuous | showing lack of thought (expressionless) |
| corpulent | fat (obese) |
| provincial | province of a country (small-town) |
| din | loud, unpleasant noise (uproar) |
| knickerbocker | a baker of marble (marble) |
| fluctuate | rise and fall in amount (decrease) |
| sporadic | scattered in a place (isolated) |
| divine retribution | supernatural punishment (punishment) |
| rajah | Indian king or prince (leader) |
| elicit | evoke or draw out (answer) |
| valor | great courage in face of danger (strength of mind) |
| somnambulatory | quite reflection (absent mindedness) |
| deinizen | an inhabitant (occupant) |
| jaunty | expressing a self confident manner (confident) |
| rout | disorderly retreat of defeated troops (retreat) |
| suppress | forcibly put an end to (defeat) |
| innumerable | too many to be counted (countless) |
| ecstatic | joyful excitement (elevated) |
| reproach | express disapproval (disappointment) |
| serf | a person who is bound to the land (owned) |
| obstinate | refusing to change ones opinion (dogged) |
| exult | feel or show triumphant elation (joyful) |
| hulking | large, heavy, and clumsy (biggish) |
| nebulous | lacking definite form (indistinct) |
| laudable | deserving praise (worthy) |
| insidious | proceeding in a gradual way with harmful effects (stealthy) |
| repose | a state of rest (relaxation) |
| debauch | destroy or debase the moral purity of (corrupt) |
| antecedent | preceding in time or order (previous) |
| ingratiate | bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them (cultivate) |
| perturb | make someone anxious (upset) |
| dilatory | slow to act (unhurried) |
| desolate | empty or bare (bare) |
| elusive | difficult to find (evasive) |
| lapse | failure of concentration (failing) |
| insistent | demanding something (persistent) |
| tentative | not certain or fixed (provisional) |
| abrupt | sudden and unexpected (sudden) |
| tumult | a large noise caused by people (uproar) |
| portentous | like a warning (ominous) |
| irreverent | showing a lack of respect for people (disrespectful) |
| vicarious | experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person (secondhand) |
| rancor | bitterness or resentfulness (hate) |
| formidable | inspiring fear or respect (intimidating) |
| humidor | an airtight container for keeping cigars or tobacco moist (bottle) |
| indiscernible | impossible to see (unnoticeable) |
| settee | long seat with a back (couch) |
| in cahoots | colluding or conspiring together secretly (alliance) |
| divot | a piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club in making a stroke (clump) |
| garrulous | excessively talkative (talkative) |
| incoherent | expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way (unclear) |
| conceivable | capable of being imagined or grasped mentally (imaginable) |
| forlorn | pitifully sad and abandoned (lonely) |
| laden | heavily loaded (freight) |
| pasquinade | one displayed or delivered publicly in a public place (mockery) |
| derange | insane (crazy) |
| surmise | suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it (guess) |
| superfluous | mean being more than is needed (extra) |
| elocution | the skill of clear and expressive speech (oratory) |
| unutterable | too great, intense, or awful to describe (beyond words) |
| subtle | so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe (fine) |
| orgastic | having great excitement, especially sexual excitement (depraved) |
| borne | birthed (delivered) |
| ceaselessly | continuously and without end (never ending) |
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