Final - Vocab

Question 1

It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in it monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper boxes and tool boxes and terraced with a _______ of windshields that a mirrored a dozen suns

Answer 1

Labyrinth

Question 2

After that I lived like a young ____ in all the capitals of europe paris venice rome collecting jewels chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little things for myself only and trying to forget something very sad.

Answer 2

Rajah

Question 3

Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant whereupon mr wolfshiem swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a _______________ abstraction

Answer 3

somnambulatory

Question 4

He’s quite a character around New York a _________ of broadway

Answer 4

Denizen

Question 5

The flowers were unnecessary for at two o clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby’s with innumerable _____________ to contain it

Answer 5

Receptables

Question 6

After the house we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers but outside Gatsby’s Window it began to rain again so we stood in a row looking at the ____________ surface of the sound

Answer 6

Corrugated

Question 7

He was now decently clothed in a sport shirt open at the neck, sneakers, and duck trousers of a _________ hue

Answer 7

Nebulous

Question 8

He was a son of god - phrase which if it means anything means just that he must be about his father’s business the service of a vast vulgar and _____________ beauty

Answer 8

Meretricious

Question 9

She was appalled by west egg this unprecedented place that broadwat had begotten upon a long island fishing village appaled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old ___________

Answer 9

Euphemisms

Question 10

So the whole ___________ had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes

Answer 10

Caravansary

Question 11

The immediate ___________ overtook him pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss

Answer 11

Contingency

Question 12

Her expression was curiously familiar it was and expression I had offen seen on a women’s face but on Myrtle Wilson face it seemed purposeless and ________ until I realized that her eyes wide with jealous terror were fixed not on Tom but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife

Answer 12

Inexplicable

Question 13

The transition from ______ to prig was so complete

Answer 13

Libertine

Question 14

The circle closed up again with a running murmur of _____________ it was a minute before I could see anything at all

Answer 14

Expostulations

Question 15

I walked back along the border of the law, ________ the gravel softly and tiptoed up the veranda steps

Answer 15

Traversed

Question 16

He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his _________ if the house as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil

Answer 16

Scrutiny

Question 17

this isn’t just an ________ life is much more successfully looked at from a single window

Answer 17

epigram

Question 18

Now he was a strudy man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a _______ manner

Answer 18

supercillious

Question 19

she was only _______ but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words

Answer 19

extemporizing

Question 20

I knew now why her face was familiar its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many ________- pictures of the sporting life at … Palm Beach

Answer 20

rotogravure

Question 21

something was making him nibble at the edge of stake ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished her ____ heart

Answer 21

peremptory

Question 22

evidently some wild wag of an _____ set them there to fatten his practice…. and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away

Answer 22

oculist

Question 23

the only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sit-ing on the edge of the waste land a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and __________ to absolutely nothing

Answer 23

contiguous

Question 24

the intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive ______

Answer 24

hauteur

Question 25

on week ends his rolls Royce became an

Answer 25

omnibus

Question 26

burst of chatter as the _________ news goes around what she is Gilda Gray’s understudy from the Follies

Answer 26

erroneous

Question 27

there were three married couples and Jordan’s escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent ________ and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him to her person

Answer 27

innuendo

Question 28

when the Jazz History if the World was over, girls were putting their heads on mens shoulders in a puppyish , _____- way

Answer 28

convivial

Question 29

eluding Jordan’s undergraduate who was now engaged in an ________ conversations with two chorus girls and who implored me to join him, I went insdie

Answer 29

obstetrical

Question 30

the tears coursed down her cheeks not freely however for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color and pursues the rest of their way in slow black ________

Answer 30

rivulets

Question 31

the _____ horns reached a crecendo

Answer 31

caterwauling

Question 32

the bored haughty face that she had turned to the world concealed something-most _______ conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beggining

Answer 32

affectations

Question 33

she wasn’t able to endue being at a disadvantage and given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in_____ when she was very young in order to keep that cool insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her jaunty body

Answer 33

subterfuges