The Great Gatsby Vocabulary

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Acute

Back 1

Sharp; keen

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Banns

Back 2

Public announcement of a proposed marrige

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complacency

Back 3

self-satisfaction

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Conferred

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Bestowed

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Contemptuous

Back 5

Disdainful

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Corroborated

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Confirmed

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Epigram

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Short, witty poem or saying

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Fractiousness

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Quarrelsomeness

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Incredulously

Back 9

Skeptically

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Infinitesimal

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Incalculably small

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Languidly

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Sluggishly

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Levity

Back 12

Lightness; frivolousness

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Rotogravure

Back 13

Old method of developing photographs

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Supercilious

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Coolly haughty

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Ambiguously

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Capable of being understood in more than one way

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Anemic

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Lacking vitality

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Countenance

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Appearance

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Hauteur

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Arrogance; haughtiness

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Incessant

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Constant and uninterrupted

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Jovially

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Merrily

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Oculist

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Optometrist

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Pastoral

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Peaceful; rural

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Proprietary

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Possessive

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Transcendent

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Overcoming; rising (above)

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Ascertain

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Determine

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Asunder

Back 26

Apart

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Cataracts

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Waterfalls

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Corpulent

Back 28

Stout

Front 29

Deplorably

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Lamentably

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Discordant

Back 30

Clashing; out of harmony

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Echolalia

Back 31

Condition in which one repeats what others have said

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Fortnight

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Two weeks

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Harlequin

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Multicolored

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Provincial

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Unsophisticated

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Denizen

Back 35

Regular; frequent visitor

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Gilt

Back 36

Golden

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Knickerbockers

Back 37

Loose, short pants gathered at the knee

Front 38

Gaudily

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Flashily

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Nebulous

Back 39

Indistinct

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Postern

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Back gate; private entrance

Front 41

Rout

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Disorganized retreat

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Swathed

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Draped

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Vestige

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Trace

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Antecedents

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Predecessors

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Contingencies

Back 45

Possible outcomes

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Debauchee-person

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Person corrupted by indulgence

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Euphemisms

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Inoffensive expressions that stand in for potentially offensive ones

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Ingratiate

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To gain favor by flattery

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Lethargic

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Sluggish

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Perturbed

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Bothered

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Reposing

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Placing

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Boisterously

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Rowdily

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Irreverent

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Lacking proper respect

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Libertarian

Back 54

A person unrestrained by conventions or morality

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Precipitately

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Suddenly

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Prig

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Obnoxiously proper person

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Amorphous

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Shapeless

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Benediction

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Blessing

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Cahoots

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Partnership; league

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Fortuitously

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Happening by chance

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Pneumatic

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Inflated

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Protégés

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Persons trained, influenced, and helped along by others

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Strata

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Level (of society)

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Unscrupulously

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In an unprincipled manner

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Vestibule

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Lobby

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Bulbous

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Bulb-like

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Reverent

Back 67

Awed and respectful

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Superfluous

Back 68

Excessive; unnecessary

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Surmise

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Conjecture; idea based on little evidence