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Gatsby Chapters 7-9

QuestionAnswer
Lapse a slip or error, often of a trivial sort; failure
Insistent earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent
Tentative unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant
Abrupt sudden or unexpected
Tumult uproar; disorder; highly distressing agitation of mind or feeling
Portentous ominous, predictive of future bad events
Irreverent not respectful; critical of what is generally accepted or respected
Vicarious taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute
Rancor resentment or ill will; hatred; malice
Formidable of great strength; forceful; powerful
Humidor a container or storage room for cigars or other preparations of tobacco
Indiscernible cannot be seen or perceived clearly; imperceptible
Settee a seat for two or more persons, having a back and usually arms, and often upholstered
In cahoots in partnership; in league with; in conspiracy
Divot a piece of turf gouged out with a club in making a stroke
Garrulous excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, esp. about trivial matters
Incoherent without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling
Conceivable imaginable; believable
Forlorn desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance
Laden burdened; loaded down
Pasquinade a satire or lampoon
Derange to disturb the condition, action, or function of
Surmise to guess
Superfluous excessive; unnecessary or needless
Elocution a person's manner of speaking
Unutterable unspeakable; beyond expression
Subtle difficult to understand
Orgastic at the height of emotional excitement
Borne carried
Ceaselessly without stopping or pausing
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