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Great Gatsby Vocab
Vocabulary List
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Feign (v.) | To make a certain appearance to one's eye. (act) |
| Supercilious (adj.) | Having a scornful or disrespectful facial expression. (cocky) |
| Conscientious (adj.) | Controlled by someone's belief. (diligent) |
| Reciprocal (adj.) | Having a matching or mutual feeling. (mutual) |
| Complacent (adj.) | When someone or something is eager to please; self-satisfied. (confident) |
| Infinite (adj.) | Something that is immeasurably great. (absolute.) |
| Intimation (n.) | Making something known. (allusion.) |
| Anon (adv.) | Something happening in a short time or at a later time. (shortly.) |
| Contiguous (adj.) | In close range. (contiguously.) |
| Facet (N.) | A small cut on a surface. (Faceted) |
| Cower (v.) | To slouch in shame or fear (Cowered) |
| Interpose (v.) | To place a barrier (Intervine) |
| Apathetic (adj) | showing zero emotion (unfeeling) |
| Languid (adj) | lacking in determination (Slack) |
| Imply (v) | to indicate without stating it (demand) |
| Strident (adj) | Making of a harsh sound (creaking) |
| Deft (adj) | dexterous (clever) |
| Clad(v) | A simple past tense (clothe) |
| Permeate | fill spread throughout something, pervade |
| innuendo | an allusive or oblique remark or hint typically a suggestive or disparaging one |
| erroneous | wrong incorrect |
| vehement | showing strong feeling forceful passionate |
| cordial | warm or friendly |
| impetuous | moving fast acting or done quickly |
| vacuous | showing lack of thought |
| corpulent | fat |
| provincial | of or concerning province of a country or empire |
| din | a loud unpleasnt noise |
| knickerbocker | the style of pants the settlers wore |
| fluctuate | rise and fall irregulary |
| sporadic | occuring at irregular intervals |
| divine retribution | punishmeant by god |
| rajah | Indian Prince |
| elicit | evoke or draw out from someone in reaction to ones own actions |
| valor | great courage in the face of danger |
| somnbulatory | sleepwalking |
| deinizen | occupant of a particular place |
| jaunty | cheerful |
| rout | disorderly retreat of troops |
| suppress | forcibly put an end to |
| innumerable | too many to be counted |
| ecstaic | feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness |
| reproach | address someone in a way as expressed disapproval |
| serf | an agrucultral laborer bound under the fedual system to work on his land estate |
| obstinate | stubbernly refusing to change ones opinion or chosen course of action |
| exult | feel or show triumphant elation or jubulation |
| hulking | large or heavy |
| nebulous | unclear or vauge |
| laudable | deserving praise |
| insidious | proceding in a gradual way |
| repose | a state of rest sleep or tranquility |
| debauch | destory or debase the moral purity of courput |
| antecedent | a thing or event that existed before logically precedes |
| ingratiate | bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them |
| perturb | make someone anxious or unsettled |
| dilatory | slow to act |
| deso | feeling of misery |
| elusive | difficult to find or catch |
| laspe | a temperary failure of concentration |
| insistent | insisting or demanding something |
| tentaive | not certain or fixed |
| abrupt | sudden and unexpected |
| tumult | a loud confused noise |
| portentous | warning of or like a porent |
| irreverent | showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously |
| vicarious | experienced in the imagination through the feelings |
| rancor | bitterness or resentfulness |
| formidable | inspringing fear or respect |
| humidor | an airtight container for keeping cigars |
| indiscernible | impossible to se or clearly distinguish |
| settee | a long upholstered seat for more than one person |
| in cahoots | colluding or conspiring together secretly |
| diviot | a piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club swing |
| garruous | excessivey talkative |
| incoherent | a spoken language expressed in a uncomprehensable way |
| conceivable | capable of being imagined or grasped |
| forlorn | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely |
| laden | heavily loaded or weighed down |
| pasquinade | a satire or lampoon |
| derrange | cause someone to become insane |
| surmise | suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it |
| superflous | unnecessary |
| elocution | the skill of clear and expressive speech |
| unutterable | too great intense or awful to describe |
| subtle | so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze |
| orgastic | exciting or stimulating |
| borne | to suffer carried or transported by the thing specified |
| ceaselessly | continuously and without end. |
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