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The Great Gatsby
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| privy | knowing a secret, something private |
| sinister | threatening or portending evil, harm, trouble ; ominous |
| languid | lacking in vigor , slow/slack lazy |
| reproach | to find a fault, blame to get on too, rebuke |
| extemperize | to do, manage something in a makeshift way improvising |
| hauter, hauty | pride or arrogance |
| levity | lack of seriousness lightness |
| supercilious | haughtily, superior to others |
| intimation | a hint/suggestion |
| grotesqe | odd or unnatural shape, bizarre, distorted |
| transcendent | superior, supreme, rises above all |
| staid | settled- unmoving and boring, not exciting |
| deft | quick,mentally and physically |
| homogeneity | state of having similarities in a group all the same |
| strident | a strong bold, grading voice |
| innuendo | implying a hint in a bad way |
| provincial | local, unmanneraly, rough,rustic |
| hors d' ouvre | appetizer |
| feign | to imitate deceptively false appearance, to pretend |
| provoction | something that incites/angers |
| gaudy | brilliantly or excessivly showy, tacky, extravagant in a negative way |
| fortnight | 14 nights, two weeks |