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Ch 8 and 9 Gatsby

Vocabulary

QuestionAnswer
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 but out of the ground by a golf club in making a stroke
garrulous excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters
incoherent 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; one posted 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 a future of potential and promise, of things that have yet to be denied
borne at the height of emotional excitement
ceaselessly continuously, endlessly
Created by: marcelomedina1
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