gatsby Flashcards
harrowed
extremely disturbed or distressed
ingratiate
to gain favor with another by deliberate effort to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage
laudable
deserving praise commendable and admirable exemplary
meretricious
apparently attractive but having in reality no value vulgarly cheaply attractive
Turgid
swollen excessively embellished in style or language
libertine
A freethinker usually used despairingly one without moral restraint
expostulation
The act of expressing Ernest opposition or protest
traversed
moved over across or through
boisterously
rough and noisy noisily jolly or rowdy clamorous unrestrained
caravansary
A place where caravans would stop like a large inn or hostel
portentous
foreshadowing in event to come causing wonder all self-conscious the weighty pompous
stagnant
not running or flowing file from standing still in active sluggish dull
redolent
fragrant smelling strongly tending to arouse memories or create an aura
pneumatic
relating to air worked by compressed air
amorphous
without a clearly defined shape or form