English 11 - vocab list 18 (Great Gatsby)

Question 1

fractiousness

Answer 1

the quality of being troublesome or quarrelsome; irritability

Question 2

prodigality

Answer 2

the quality of being recklessly extravagant; wasteful expenditure

Question 3

subterfuges

Answer 3

deception in order to conceal, escape or evade; a deceptive device

Question 4

punctilious

Answer 4

marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions

Question 5

meretricious

Answer 5

tawdrily or falsely attractive

Question 6

turgid

Answer 6

excessively embellished in style or language; bombastic

Question 7

euphemism

Answer 7

the substitution of a mild or agreeable term in place of a more offensive one

Question 8

obtrusive

Answer 8

forward in a manner or conduct; undesirably prominent

Question 9

portentous

Answer 9

of or relating to, or constituting a foreshadowing, prophesy or omen

Question 10

truculent

Answer 10

feeling or displaying ferocity; cruel, savage, aggressively self-assertive

Question 11

redolent

Answer 11

exuding fragrance; aromatic

Question 12

garrulous

Answer 12

pointlessly or annoyingly talkative

Question 13

fortuitously

Answer 13

occurring in an accidental (usually fortunate) manner

Question 14

amorphous

Answer 14

having no definite form, shapeless; lacking organization or unity

Question 15

contingency

Answer 15

an event that is of possible but uncertain occurrence

Question 16

vicariously

Answer 16

in a manner experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participates

Question 17

unscrupulously

Answer 17

in a manner lacking principle or ethics

Question 18

forlorn

Answer 18

sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion; desolate

Question 19

interminable

Answer 19

having or seeming to have no end

Question 20

solidarity

Answer 20

unity that is based on community of interests, objectives, and standards