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TGG Vocab
The Great Gatsby 1-3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Privy | Personal, Private |
| Sinister | Singularly evil or productive of evil |
| Languid | Weak |
| Reproach | Address someone in such way as to express disapproval or disappointment |
| Extemporize | Perform or compose something such as music or speech without preparation |
| Hauteur | Disdainful Pride |
| Levity | Humor or Frivolity |
| Supercilious | Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others |
| Intimation | An indication or hint |
| Grotesque | Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted |
| Transcendent | Beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience |
| Staid | Sedate, respectable, and unadventurous, steady, boring |
| Deft | Neatly skillful and quickness moments |
| Homogeneity | The quality or state of being all the same or all of the same kind |
| Strident | Loud and harsh and grating |
| Innuendo | An allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically suggestive or disparagan one |
| Provincial | For concerning a province of a country or empire |
| hors d' oeure | A small savory dish |
| Feign | Pretend to be affected by feeling state, injury |
| Provocation | Action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, deliberately aggravate |
| Gaudy | Extravagantly bright or showy |
| Fortnight | period of 2 weeks |
| Punctilious | Marked by Precise accordance with codes or conventions formal, polite |
| Inffable | Indescribable, Unspeakable |
| Disconcerting | Causing loss of composure or self- possession |
| Ingratiate | Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them |
| Dilatory | Slow to act |
| Antecedent | A thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another |
| Defunct | No longer existing or functioning |
| Postern | A back or side entrance |
| Laudable | Action, Idea or goal |
| Highball | Travel fast |
| Meretricious | Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity |
| Denizen | An inhabitant or occupant of a particular place |
| Elicit | Evoke or draw out a response, answer, or fact from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions |
| Nebulous | Form of a cloud or haze |
| Vestige | A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists |
| Retribution | Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act |
| Insidious | Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects |
| Distraught | Deeply upset and agitated |
| Indiscreet | Not careful, private |
| Explicable | Capable of being explained or answered |
| Presumptuous | Assuming something |
| Aesthetic | Concerned with notions such as beautiful and the ugly |
| Boisterous | Rough and noisy, clamorous |
| Portentous | for telling evil |
| Solidarity | coming together |
| Vicarious | Performed, Exercised, suffered in place of another |
| Inviolate | Save from violation |
| Garroulons | Excessively talking, rambling |
| Strata | like rocks |
| Pneumatic | Relating to air, gas or wind |
| Elocution | A person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public |
| Fortuitous | Something good |
| Interminable | Incapable of being terminated unending |
| Transitory | Lasting a short time |
| Wan | Obselect, past tense of win |
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