The Great Gastby Vocabulary
Terms
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- fractiousness
- of a nature to be troublesome
- ineffable
- unspeakable; incapable of being expressed in words
- oblivious
- unaware
- ingratiate
- gain favor by deliberate effort
- dilatory
- tardy; causing delay
- perceptible
- capable of being perceived by the senses
- portentous
- eliciting amazement or wonder; ominious
- truculent
- cruel; harsh; belligerent
- fortuitously
- luckily; accidently
- adventitious
- accidental
- pasquinade
- satire
- surmise
- conjecture; idea based on scanty evidence
- insidious
- treacherous; having a gradual and cumulative effect
- superlicious
- cooly and patronizingly haughty
- imperceptibly
- not perceptible or understood by a sense of the mind
- wan
- suggestive of poor health
- cynical
- contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives
- peremptorily
- authroitatively; putting an end to a right of action
- contiguous
- being in actual contact; touching
- harlequin
- variegated pattern; combination of colors
- prodigality
- reckless extravagance
- staid
- marked by sedateness and prim self-restraint
- condescending
- voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in relations with an inferior
- vacuous
- lacking content; empty
- florid
- red-taced; flower covered or colored
- corpulent
- having a large, bulky body
- provincial
- limited in outlook
- echolalia
- the often pathological repitition of what is said by other people as if echoing them
- malevolence
- evil, bad behavior
- punctilious
- concerned with details of codes or conventions
- somnambulatory
- trance-like; sleep-walking
- succulent
- full of juice and freshness
- denizen
- inhabitant; one that frequents a place
- meretricious
- falsely attractive; based on pretense or insincerity; specious; false allure or promise
- conceits
- thought; opinions; fanciful ideas (also relates to elaborate metaphor)