Gatsby Vocabulary Chapter 3-6

Question 1

Fortnight

Answer 1

Essentially two weeks
14 days and 14 nights

Question 2

Permeate

Answer 2

To pass into or through every part

Question 3

Prodigality

Answer 3

The quality or fact of being wasteful in spending

Question 4

Vehement

Answer 4

Characterized by anger or violence

Question 5

Contemptuous

Answer 5

Showing or expressing in disrespect

Question 6

Staid

Answer 6

Fixed settled or permanent

Question 7

Vacuous

Answer 7

Without contents

Question 8

Florid

Answer 8

Reddish, ruddy

Question 9

Corpulent

Answer 9

Large or bulk of body fat

Question 10

Vinous

Answer 10

Of resembling or containing wine

Question 11

Punctilious

Answer 11

Strict or exact in the observance of the formalities of conduct or action

Question 12

Incredulous

Answer 12

Indicating or showing disbelief

Question 13

Somnambulate

Answer 13

Sleepwalking

Question 14

Denizen

Answer 14

A inhabitant or resident or visits freqently

Question 15

Vestige

Answer 15

Surviving evidence of something

Question 16

Nebulous

Answer 16

Cloudy or cloud like

Question 17

Laudable

Answer 17

Deserving praise

Question 18

Insidious

Answer 18

Intended to entrap or be stealthy

Question 19

Meritorious

Answer 19

Alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions

Question 20

Conceit

Answer 20

An excessively favorable opinion of ones ability

Question 21

Ineffable

Answer 21

Incapable of being expressed or described in words

Question 22

Turgid

Answer 22

Swollen or inflated

Question 23

Ingratiate

Answer 23

To establish in the good graces of someone

Question 24

Dilatory

Answer 24

Tending to delay or procrastinate