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Klipspringer
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a small agile African antelope having large ears
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A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as "the boarder"--I doubt if he had any other home.
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supercilious
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haughty
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Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
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fractiousness
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unruly, rebellious
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His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
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languidly
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slowly, listlessly
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Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
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fervent
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extremely hot, glowing
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"We've got to beat them down," whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.
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complacency
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contentment, self-satisfaction, smugness
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There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
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peremptorily
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commanding; urgent
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As I started my moter Daisy peremptorily called: "Wait!"
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contiguous
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near, next
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The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it, and contiguous to absolutely nothing.
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anaemic
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lacking vitality; listless and weak
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He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome.
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crepe-de-chine
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a very thin crepe of silk or silk-like fabric
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Her face, above the spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
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hauteur
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arrogance, haughtiness
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The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.
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erroneous
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containing error; mistaken; wrong
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A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her, and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray's understudy from the Follies.
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vacuous
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stupid, senseless; empty
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A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz, and between the numbers people were doing "stunts" all over the garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.
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florid
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ornate, showy; ruddy (having a healthy color)
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I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
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corpulent
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fatness
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I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
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punctilious
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careful about nice points of behavior; very exact, precise
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This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness.
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sinister
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wicked, evil
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And with this doubt, his whole statement fell to peices, and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him, after all.
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incredulous
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with disbelief
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With an effort I mananaged to restrain my incredulous laughter.
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somnambulatory
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in a sleepwalking manor
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Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr. Wolfsheim swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction.
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presbyterian
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a member of a Presbyterian church
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"This is a nice restaurant here," said Mr. Wolfsheim, looking at the Presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling.
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juxtaposition
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to put side by side
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The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling.
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denizen
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inhabitant
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"He's quite a character around New York--a denizen of Broadway."
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