Gatsby Vocabulary Chapter 3-6 Flashcards
1
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Fortnight
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Essentially two weeks
14 days and 14 nights
2
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Permeate
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To pass into or through every part
3
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Prodigality
A
The quality or fact of being wasteful in spending
4
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Vehement
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Characterized by anger or violence
5
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Contemptuous
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Showing or expressing in disrespect
6
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Staid
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Fixed settled or permanent
7
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Vacuous
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Without contents
8
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Florid
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Reddish, ruddy
9
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Corpulent
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Large or bulk of body fat
10
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Vinous
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Of resembling or containing wine
11
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Punctilious
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Strict or exact in the observance of the formalities of conduct or action
12
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Incredulous
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Indicating or showing disbelief
13
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Somnambulate
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Sleepwalking
14
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Denizen
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A inhabitant or resident or visits freqently
15
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Vestige
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Surviving evidence of something
