The Great Gatsby Vocabulary

Front 1

vulnerable

Back 1

1. To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
2. To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.

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reserve

Back 2

1. To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose.
2. To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use.
3. To keep or secure for oneself; retain: I reserve the right to disagree.

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inclined

Back 3

1. Sloping, slanting, or leaning.
2. Having a preference, disposition, or tendency: lobbied the positively inclined senators to push for the bill's passage.

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veteran

Back 4

1. A person who is long experienced or practiced in an activity or capacity: a veteran of political campaigns.
2. A person who has served in the armed forces: "Privilege, a token income . . . were allowed for veterans of both world wars" (Mavis Gallant).
3. An old soldier who has seen long service.

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privy

Back 5

1. Made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret: was privy to classified information.
2. Belonging or proper to a person, such as the British sovereign, in a private rather than official capacity.
3. Secret; concealed.

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unsought

Back 6

Not looked for or requested: received some unsought advice.

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feign

Back 7

1.a. To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.
1.b. To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.
2. To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.
3. To fabricate: feigned an excuse.
4. Archaic To invent or imagine.

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quiver

Back 8

To shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement.

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plagiaristic

Back 9

1. The act of plagiarizing.
2. Something plagiarized.

plagiarism

1. the verbatim copying or imitation of the language, ideas, or thoughts of another author and representing them as one’s own original work.
2. the material so appropriated. Also plagiary. — plagiarist, n. — plagiaristic, adj.

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marred

Back 10

1. To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
2. To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.