The Great Gatsby Vocab
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- Contigous
- (Adj) Touching, in contact
- Strident
- (Adj) Harsh, loud, shrill, grating in sound
- Meretricious
- (Adj) Superficially attractive/ misleadingly plausible
- Fortuitously
- (Adj) Happening or produced by chance
- Laudable
- (Adj) Deserving praise
- Staid
- (Adj) Settled or sedate
- Languidly
- (Adj) Lacking in vigor or vitality
- Incessant
- (Adj) Continuing without interruption, ceaseless
- Turgid
- (Adj) Swollen
- Fractiousness
- (N) Crankiness, irritability
- Commensurate
- (Adj) Having the same measure
- Fluctuate
- (V) To change continually
- Defunct
- (Adj) No longer in effect
- Nebulous
- (Adj) Hazy, vague
- Saunter
- (V) Walk with a leasurley gait
- Redolent
- (Adj) Having a pleasant odor
- Adventitious
- (Adj) Associated with something by chance
- Dilatory
- (Adj) Slow, intended to delay
- Portentous
- (Adj) Significant, pompous, amazing
- Forlorn
- (Adj) Desolate or dreary
- Vacuous
- (Adj) Empty, lacking intelligence
- Supercilious
- (Adj) Arrogant, exhibiting haughty contempt
- Disconcerting
- (V) To upset the self-possession of
- Deft
- (Adj) Dexterous, nimble
- Vestige
- (N) Visible evidence of something that is no longer present