vocab for great gatsby
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- Klipspringer
- a small agile African antelope having large ears
- supercilious
- haughty
- fractiousness
- unruly, rebellious
- languidly
- slowly, listlessly
- fervent
- extremely hot, glowing
- complacency
- contentment, self-satisfaction, smugness
- peremptorily
- commanding; urgent
- contiguous
- near, next
- anaemic
- lacking vitality; listless and weak
- crepe-de-chine
- a very thin crepe of silk or silk-like fabric
- hauteur
- arrogance, haughtiness
- erroneous
- containing error; mistaken; wrong
- vacuous
- stupid, senseless; empty
- florid
- ornate, showy; ruddy (having a healthy color)
- corpulent
- fatness
- punctilious
- careful about nice points of behavior; very exact, precise
- sinister
- wicked, evil
- incredulous
- with disbelief
- somnambulatory
- in a sleepwalking manor
- presbyterian
- a member of a Presbyterian church
- juxtaposition
- to put side by side
- denizen
- inhabitant