The Great Gatsby Vocabulary
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- Fractious
- unruly,quarrelsome,irritable
- Peremptory
- admitting of no contradiction, often characterized by arrogant self assurance
- supercilious
- arrogant, contemptuous
- Strident
- Commanding attention by loud or obtrusive quality
- Prodigality
- Reckless extravagance, lavishness, luxuriance
- Vacuous
- marked by lack of ideas or intelligence; devoid of serious occupation
- corpulent
- having a large bulky body
- provincial
- limited in outlook, narrow; unsophisticated
- Malevolence
- intense often vicious ill will, spite.
- punctilious
- concerned about precise exact accordance with details of codes or conventions
- denizen
- inhabitant; one that frequents a place
- meretricious
- Tawdrily and falsely attractive, pretentious, gaudy
- turgid
- swollen, excessively embellished in style or language, bombastic, pompous
- euphemism
- substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may be offend or suggest something unpleasant
- Dilatory
- intending to cause delay; procrastinating
- truculent
- cruel, savage, deadly, destructive, vitriolic; belligerent
- garrulous
- pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
- fortuitously
- occurring by change; fortunate, lucky
- Humidor
- a box of cigars can be stored to prevent them from drying out.
- indiscernible
- impossible to see or to understand
- in cahoots
- to join with others for a common interest of goal
- divot
- a small lump of grass and earth accidentally dug out of the ground while playing a sport
- incoherent
- not clearly expressed or well thought out, and consequently difficult to understand
- conceivable
- possible to imagine, understand or believe
- forlorn
- lonely and miserable, as though deserted or abandoned
- laden
- weighed down with a heavy load or by a problem of unpleasant feeling
- surmise
- a conclusion drawn on only limited evidence or intuitive feeling
- superfluous
- in excess of what is needed
- unutterable
- impossible to express or describe because of emotional intensity
- ephemeral
- lasting for only a short period of time
- obstinate
- stubborn and unwilling to change
- insistent
- persistent in maintaining or demanding something
- tentative
- said or done in a slow and careful way, suggesting a lack of confidence
- abrupt
- sudden and unexpected
- laudable
- admirable and worthy of praise
- insidious
- slowly and subtly harmful or destructive
- tumult
- a violent or noisy commotion
- Pompous
- having excessive sense of self-importance
- ecstatic
- showing or feeling great pleasure or delight
- ingratiate
- to try and enter somebody's favor, especially in order to gain an advantage