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Great Gatsby Vocab
Vocabulary List
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Feign | To make a certain appearance to one's eye. (act) |
| Supercilious | Having a scornful or disrespectful facial expression. (cocky) |
| Conscientious | Controlled by someone's belief. (diligent) |
| Reciprocal | Having a matching or mutual feeling. (mutual) |
| Complacent | When someone or something is eager to please; self-satisfied. (confident) |
| Infinite | Something that is immeasurably great. (absolute) |
| Intimation | Making something known. (allusion) |
| Anon | Something happening in a short time or at a later time. (shorty) |
| Contiguous | Being adjacent; touching. (neighboring) |
| Facet | A cut on one side of a fragment of rock or a gem. (face) |
| Cower | To crouch in fear or shame. (cringe) |
| Interpose | To place between; but barrier in between or in the way. (interfere) |
| Apathetic | Having or showing little to no emotion. (laid-back) |
| Languid | Lacking; slack or slow. (lazy) |
| Imply | To indicate or suggest without saying it; giving a clue. (hint) |
| Strident | Making or having a harsh sound. (loud) |
| Deft | Skillful or clever. (nimble) |
| Clad | Dressed or covered. (clothed) |
| Permeate | Spread throughout something; pervade. (fill) |
| Innuendo | An allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one. (hint) |
| Erroneous | Wrong; incorrect (false) |
| Vehement | Showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense. (angry) |
| Cordial | Warm and friendly (heartful) |
| Impetuous | Acting or done quickly and without thought or care. (moving fast) |
| Vacuous | Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless. (blank) |
| Corpulent | Fat (fleshy) |
| Provincial | Belonging or peculiar to some particular province (local) |
| Din | A loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise. (babel) |
| Knickerbocker | The style of pants the settlers wore. (knock back) |
| Fluctuate | Rise and fall irregularly in number or amount. (vary) |
| Sporadic | Occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places. (occasional) |
| Divine Retribution | Punishment by God. (punishment) |
| Rajah | Indian prince (emperor) |
| Elicit | Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions. (bring out) |
| Valor | Great courage in the fact of danger, especially battle. (boldness) |
| Somnambulatory | Sleepwalking |
| Deinizen | Occupant of a particular place. |
| Jaunty | Easy and sprightly in manner. (breezy) |
| Rout | A disorderly retreat of defeated troops. (beating) |
| Suppress | Forcibly put an end to. (abolish) |
| Innumerable | Too many to be counted. (countless) |
| Ecstatic | Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement. (blissful) |
| Reproach | Address (someone) in such a way to express disapproval or disappointment. (disgrace) |
| Serf | An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. (servant) |
| Obstinate | stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade on to do so. |
| Exult | feel or show triumphant elation or jubilation. |
| Hulking | (of a person or object) large, heavy, or clumsy. |
| Nebulous | (of a concept or idea) unclear, vague, or ill-defined. |
| Laudable | (of an action, idea, or goal) deserving praise and commendation. |
| Insidious | proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects. |
| Repose | a state of rest, sleep, or tranquility. |
| Debauch | destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt. |
| Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another |
| Ingratiate | bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them. |
| Perturb | make (someone) anxious or unsettled. |
| Dilatory | Slow to act |
| Desolate | (Feeling misery) (of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness. |
| Elusive | difficult to find, catch, or achieve. |
| Lapse | a temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgment. |
| Insistent | insisting or demanding something; not allowing refusal. |
| Tentative | not certain or fixed; provisional. |
| Abrupt | sudden and unexpected. |
| Tumult | a loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people. |
| Portentous | (Warning) of or like a portent |
| Irreverent | showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously. |
| Vicarious | experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person. |
| Rancor | bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing |
| Formidable | inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable. |
| Humidor | an airtight container for keeping cigars or tobacco moist. |
| Indiscernible | impossible to see or clearly distinguish. |
| Settee | a long upholstered seat for more than one person, typically with a back and arms. |
| In Cahoots | colluding or conspiring together secretly. |
| Divot | a piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club in making a stroke. |
| Garrulous | excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters. |
| Incoherent | (of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear. |
| Conceivable | capable of being imagined or grasped mentally. |
| Forlorn | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely |
| Laden | heavily loaded or weighed down. |
| Pasquinade | a satire or lampoon, originally one displayed or delivered publicly in a public place. |
| Derange | cause (someone) to become insane. |
| Surmise | suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it. |
| Superfluous | unnecessary, especially through being more than enough. |
| Elocution | the skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation |
| Unutterable | too great, intense, or awful to describe. |
| Subtle | (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe. |
| Orgastic | exciting or stimulating; relating to or prone to orgasm) |
| Borne | (To suffer) carried or transported by the thing specified. |
| Ceaselessly | continuously and without end. |
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