Vocabulary from The Great Gatsby

Vocabulary from The Great Gatsby

• Fractiousness: Irritability
• Feign: To imitate deceptively, to make believe, to pretend
• Supercilious: Having or showing arrogant superiority to those viewed as unworthy
• Conscientious: Meticulous, careful, painstaking, particular
• Incredulous: Indicating or showing unbelief
• Reciprocal: Mutual, corresponding, matching, complementary, equivalent
• Wan: Of an unnatural or sickly pallor, pallid, lacking color
• Bantering: Playful teasing
• Complacent: Often without awareness of potential danger or defect; self-satisfied
• Intimation: To make known subtly and indirectly; a hint
• Infinite: Indefinitely or exceedingly large
• Anon: In a short time; soon
• Desolate: Lonely, forlorn
• Supercilious: Arrogant
• Contiguous: Connecting without a break; uninterrupted
• Facet: Aspect, phase, side
• Cower: To crouch, as in fear or shame
• Interpose: To step in between parties at variance; mediate
• Apathetic: Not interested or concerned; indifferent or unresponsive
• Languid: Lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent
• Imply: To indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated
• Strident: Having a shrill, irritating quality or character
• Deft: Nimble, skillful, clever
• Hauteur: Disdainful pride
• Clad: Dressed; covered
• Permeate: To pass into or through every part of; to penetrate through
• Innuendo: An indirect comment about a person or thing, especially disparaging or derogatory
• Erroneous: Containing error; mistaken; incorrect; wrong
• Prodigality: Extravagance
• Vehement: Strongly emotional; intense or passionate
• Cordial: Courteous and gracious; friendly; warm
• Impetuous: Characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion; impulsive
• Vacuous: Lacking in ideas or intelligence
• Corpulent: Large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat
• Provincial: Having manners and viewpoints considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal
• Din: A loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor
• Credulity: Willingness to believe
• Cynical: Skeptical of goodness and sincerity
• Ascertain: To make sure
• Convivial: Sociable
• Affectation: Artificial behavior
• Knickerbocker: Any New Yorker
• Fluctuate: To change continually; shift back and forth
• Sporadic: Appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional
• Divine retribution: Punishment from a higher being for bad deeds or transgressions
• Rajah: A king or prince in India; a minor chief or dignitary
• Elicit: To draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke
• Valor: Heroic courage; bravery
• Somnambulatory: Related to sleep walking
• Denizen: An inhabitant; a resident; one that frequents a particular place
• Jaunty: Easy and sprightly in manner or bearing
• Punctilious: Precise, formal
• Juxtaposition: Side-by-side placement
• Abortive: Unsuccessful
• Rout: An overwhelming defeat
• Suppress: To do away with; abolish; stop
• Innumerable: Very numerous; incapable of being counted; countless
• Ecstatic: Subject to or in a state of ecstasy; rapturous
• Reproach: To find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame
• Serf: A slave
• Obstinate: Inflexible; stubborn; not yielding
• Exult: To show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice; be highly elated or jubilant
• Hulking: Heavy and clumsy; bulky
• Nebulous: Hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
• Vestige: A trace of something no longer existing
• Fluctuate: To vary
• Laudable: Deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable
• Insidious: Intended to entrap or trick
• Repose: Peace, tranquility; calm
• Debauch: An uninhibited spree or party
• Antecedent: A preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon
• Ingratiate: To establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others by deliberate effort
• Perturb: To throw into great disorder; derange; bother; annoy
• Dilatory: Tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy
• Desolate: Barren or laid waste; devastated; deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; solitary; lonely
• Elusive: Hard to express or define; cleverly or skillfully evasive
• Turgid: Pompous, swollen
• Contingency: A possible event
• Profusion: Abundance
• Oblivion: Nothingness
• Saunter: Leisurely stroll
• Lapse: A slip or error, often of a trivial sort; failure
• Insistent: Earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent
• Tentative: Unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant
• Abrupt: Sudden or unexpected
• Tumult: Uproar; disorder; highly distressing agitation of mind or feeling
• Portentous: Ominous, predictive of future bad events
• Irreverent: Not respectful; critical of what is generally accepted or respected
• Vicarious: Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute
• Rancor: Resentment or ill will; hatred; malice
• Formidable: Of great strength; forceful; powerful
• Affront: Offense
• Abyss: Bottomless pit
• Inviolate: Sacred, intact
• Intermittent: Periodic
• Presumptuous: Overly bold

Chapter Breakdown (from provided text)

• Chapter 6: Includes words like "laudable," "insidious," "repose," and "debauch"
• Chapter 7: Contains terms like "lapse," "insistent," "tentative," "abrupt," "tumult," and "portentous"
• Chapter 8: Includes words like "humidor," "indiscernible," "setee," "in cahoots," "divot," "garrulous," "incoherent," "conceivable," and "forlorn"
• Chapter 9: Contains terms like "pasquinade," "derange," "surmise," and "superfluous"