Gatsby Vocabs

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Inclined -adj

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Disposition or bent of mind

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Privy

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Secret

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Levity

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Lightness of manner or speech when inappropriate

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Incredulously

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Expressive of disbelief

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Contemptuously

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Hint

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Desolate

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Deserted

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Impenetrable

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Impossible to understand

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Sumptuous

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Lavish

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Indeterminate

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Lacking clarity;

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Apathetically

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Lacking interest or concern

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Incessant

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Continuing w/o interruption

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Gaudy

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Showy in tastless or vulgar way

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Permeate

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To spread or flow throughout

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Innuendo

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An insinuation

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Vehemently

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Forceful or intense in expression, emotion

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Sauntered

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To stroll

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Lurched

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To stagger; roll or pitch suddenly as a ship

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Sporadic

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Having no pattern

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Punctilious

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Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct

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Proprietor

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A person who has the exclusive right to something; owner

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Abstraction

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Act of considering something as a general quality or characteristic apart from concrete realities

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Benediction

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An utterance of good wishes; blessing

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Reproachfully

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Blame

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Scrutinized

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To look carefully

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Harrowed

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To disturb keenly or painfully

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Endured

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To hold out against

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Defucnt

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Dead or disticnt

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Nebulous

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Cloudy

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Laudable

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Praiseworthy; commendable

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Insidious

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Slyness; deceitful

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Ineffable

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Incapable of being expressed or described on words

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Ramification

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Consequences

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Contingencies

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Uncertainty; depending on chance or on fulfillment

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Cordial

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Warm; friendly

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Portentous

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Marvelous; arousing awe or amazement

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Magnanimous

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High - souled

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Formidable

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Causing fear or dread

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Presumptuous

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Taking too muchfor granted; too bold or forward

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Inquest

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A judicial inquiry(investigate) as a coroner's investigation of death

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Expostulation

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To reason with a person earnestly objecting to that person's actions or intentions

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Malice

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Desire to harm another or mischief

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Ravenously

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Greedily or wildly hungry

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Whim

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A sudden fancy; idle and passing notion

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Vestibule

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A small entrance hall or room

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Garrulous

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To chatter; talking to much about unimportant things

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Fortuitously

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happening by chance;accidentally

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Deranged

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Insane

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Surmise

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An idea or opinion formed from evidence that is neither positive nor conclusive

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Complacent

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Satisfied

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Aesthestic

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Showing good taste

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Provincial

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Having ways speech attitudes etc. Of a certain province

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Commensurate

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Equal in measure or size

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Oxymoron

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A rhetorical figure in which contradictory terms are combined

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Surety

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Condition of being sure; guarantee

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Prpdogality

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Rashly or wasteful extravagant

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Riotous

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Participating or inciting to riot

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Magnanimous

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Generous and noble esp in forgiving

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Cacophony

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Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance