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gatsby vocabula
dr. stones gatsby vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| supercilious | contemtuos |
| languidly | lacing in vigor or vitality |
| permptory | leaving no opportunity for denial |
| proprietary | pretaint to property |
| innuendo | if you know what i mean jk lol(indirect intimation about a person or thing) |
| staid | settled or sedate character |
| prodigality | being wasteful or extravagant |
| insolent | boldy rude |
| punctillious | extremley attntive to being formal |
| denizen | inbaitant, citizen |
| defunct | no longer in effect or use |
| confounding | to confuse someone |
| nebulous | hazy indistinct or confusedd |
| insidious | stealthily treacherous |
| metretricious | aluring by a show flashy stuff |
| ineffable | can't be described |
| turgid | swollen |
| dbauchery | excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures |
| euphemism | the subtitution of mild inderit or vague expression for though to be offensive |
| dilatory | tending to delay or procratinate |
| tumutous | full of riotousness |
| porentious | of the nature of momentous |
| vicariously | performed in place of another |
| rancour | bitter with resentiment or ill will |
| truculent | fierce; cruel; savage |
| redolent | smelly |
| fortuitously | happenig by chance |
| comensurate | having the smae measure |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing with a single thourhg or event |
| vacous | emptied of or lacking content |
| ravage | to wreak havoc on |
| complacent | being self satissfied |
| erroneous | full of mistakes |
| inept | lacking in fitness or aptitude |
| grotesque | relationg to something not naturall |
| reciprocated | to make a return of someting |