Gatsby Vocab 2 2
Terms
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- vacuous
- empty, marked by lack of ideas
- provocation
- stimulation, excitement
- ineptly
- lacking infitness or skill, inappropriate
- dissension
- disagreement; witholding of assent
- malevolence
- show of malice, spite, sometimes eevil
- subterfuge
- deception, saving face
- punctilious
- precise detail
- elongating
- long, lengthy
- satire
- humor, menat to poke fun, either gently or "black" humor in a bitter tone
- mereticious
- pertaining to a prostitute, gawdy; false show; deceitfully ornamental
- insidious
- harmful by enticing, awaiting a chance to entrap
- infinity
- without end
- finite
- opposite of infinity
- dilatory
- tending to procrastinate, taking a long time
- incarnation
- the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form
- libertine
- dissolute, without morals
- grail
- the cup or platter used according to medieval legend by Christ at the Last Supper and thereafter the object of knightly quests; the object of an extended or difficult quest
- bizarre
- strinkingly out of condition; extremely inappropriate
- poignant
- painfully touching, involving feelings, sad yet beautiful
- distraught
- agitated with doubt or mental conflict
- nebulous
- indistinct, vague
- sporadic
- occurring occasionally or in scattered instances
- vitality
- physical or mental vigor
- innumerable
- too many to be numbered; seemingly countless
- orgiastic
- usually refers to an emotional orgy of some kind