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10 Cards in this Set
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APATHETICALLY
A reluctant elevator boy went for a box full of straw and some milk to which he added on his own initiative a tin of large hard dog biscuits--one of which decomposed APATHETICALLY in the saucer of milk all afternoon. (29) |
• Lack of care, concern, enthusiasm.
• The biscuits are sitting in the milk falling apart like they don’t care. This lack of care can also apply to the dog and Nick. |
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HAUTEUR
The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive HAUTEUR |
Obnoxious superiority
Myrtle transforms from a lively person to a snob. |
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DEFT
Making a short DEFT movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. |
• Skillful in physical movement
• Tom is used to hitting people |
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GAUDY
The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are GAUDY with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. (40) |
• Showy and tacky, tasteless
• Nick thinks that Gatsby’s decorations and guests are over the top. |
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PERMEATE
The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails PERMEATE the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. |
• Spread
• Drinks are everywhere |
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PRODIGALITY
Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with PRODIGALITY , tipped out at a cheerful word. |
• Wasteful
• Laughter is being exhausted; as people get drunker, it is easier to laugh |
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HOMOGENEITY
Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity… |
• The guests are all of the same class
• Sameness • Quality of being similar or comparable |
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TORTUOUSLY
There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously… |
• Twisted; winding
• The superior are embracing each other like in a game of twister |
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DEPLORABLY
The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives. |
• Hateful, disgusting,
• Too sober to be at a party • The wives are annoyed that their sober husbands want to go home. |
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TUMULTUOUS
But as I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over. Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. |
• Chaotic
• The word is often used to refer to a chaotic relationship • Everyone is too drunk to drive • Owl eyes—car crash |
