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Great Gatsby Flashcards

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Plagiaristic

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Copied and passed off as your own

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Levity

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Lightness of manner or speech, especially when inappropriate; frivolity

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Fractiousness

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Quarrelsome, irritable

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Peremptory

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Insisting on immediate attention or obedience

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Supercilious

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Haughty, disdainful, snobby

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Contiguous

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Connecting without a break; uninterrupted

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Vacuous

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Lacking in ideas or intelligence

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Subterfuges

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A deceptive strategy or device

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Retribution

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A deserved punishment

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Juxtaposition

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Placing side by side- often in comparison

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Defunct

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No longer working

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Meretricious

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Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity

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Turgid

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Swollen

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Debauchee

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One given to extreme indulgence or debauchery

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Dilatory

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Tending or intended to cause delay; characterized by procrastination

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Truculent

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Feeling or displaying ferocity: cruel, savage; deadly, destructive

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Redolent

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Exuding fragrance: aromatic; evocative, suggestive

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Garrulous

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Pointlessly or annoyingly talkative

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Amorphous

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Being without definite character or nature: unclassifiable

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Superfluous

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Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary: not needed: unnecessary

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Complacent

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Marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers: self-satisfied

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Orgiastic

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At the height of emotional excitement

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Hedonistic

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The doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life

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