gatsby Flashcards

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harrowed

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extremely disturbed or distressed

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ingratiate

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to gain favor with another by deliberate effort to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage

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laudable

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deserving praise commendable and admirable exemplary

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meretricious

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apparently attractive but having in reality no value vulgarly cheaply attractive

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Turgid

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swollen excessively embellished in style or language

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libertine

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A freethinker usually used despairingly one without moral restraint

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expostulation

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The act of expressing Ernest opposition or protest

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traversed

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moved over across or through

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boisterously

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rough and noisy noisily jolly or rowdy clamorous unrestrained

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caravansary

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A place where caravans would stop like a large inn or hostel

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portentous

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foreshadowing in event to come causing wonder all self-conscious the weighty pompous

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stagnant

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not running or flowing file from standing still in active sluggish dull

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redolent

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fragrant smelling strongly tending to arouse memories or create an aura

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pneumatic

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relating to air worked by compressed air

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amorphous

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without a clearly defined shape or form

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addenda

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something added

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provincial

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narrow in mind or Outlook countryside in the sense of being limited and backward a simple plain design that originated in the countryside

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commensurate

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The same in size extend etc. equivalents proportional

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surmise

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likely idea that lacks definite proof

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Dilatory

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inclined to waste time and be habitually late prone to tardiness