the great gatsby vocab 2
Terms
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- fractiousness
- irritability
- feigned
- pretended
- exempt
- free from obligation
- bizarre
-
odd
grotesque - bantering
- playful teasing
- complacency
- self-satisfaction
- intimation
- hint
- desolate
- lonely
- supercilious
- haughty
- contiguous
- adjoining
- apathetic
- indifferent
- languid
- listless
- haueter
- disdainful pride
- prodigality
- extravagance
- vehemently
- forcefully
- credulity
- willingness to believe
- cynical
- skeptical of goodness and sincerity
- ascertain
- to make sure
- convivial
- sociable
- affection
- artificial
- punctilious
- precise
- labyrinth
- maze
- disconcerting
- confusing
- sinister
- ominous
- abstracted
- preoccupied
- juxtaposition
- side-by-side placement
- simultaneous
- at the same time
- defunct
- no longer existing
- abortive
- unsuccessful
- distraught
- agitated
- vestige
- a trace of something no longer existing
- fluctuate
- to vary
- turbulent
- disturbing
- turgid
- swollen
- contingency
- a possible event
- profusion
- abundance
- oblivion
- nothingness
- saunter
- leisurely stroll
- dilatory
- slow
- affront
- offense
- abyss
- bottomless pit
- inviolate
-
sacred
intact - intermittent
- periodic
- presumptuous
- overly bold
- formidable
- awesome
- incessant
- without stopping
- ravenoulsy
- hungrily
- pervaded
- spread throughout
- corrborate
- confirm
- garrulous
- overly talkative
- amorphous
- formless
- holocaust
- complete distruction
- adventitious
- accidental
- superfluous
- excessive
- deferred
- yielded
- jaunty
- stylish
- distort
- twist out of shape
- transitory
- temporary
- incoherent
-
disordered
unconnected