Great Gatsby Vocab

Question 1

supercilious

Answer 1

Haughtily contemptuous, arrogant

Question 2

Contiguous

Answer 2

Next to, adjoining, touching

Question 3

Spectroscopic

Answer 3

Sentence: East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.

Definition: of, relating to, or involving spectroscopy: the production and investigation of spectra: spectrum

Question 4

Echolalia

Answer 4

Definition: the often pathological repetition of what is said by other people as if echoing them

Question 5

Denizen

Answer 5

Definition: Inhabitant, resident

Question 6

Cornices

Answer 6

Definition: Projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition

Question 7

Wan

Answer 7

Definition (options)
-pallid, sickly
-dim
-showing little effort (Languid)
-faint
feeble (lacking human vitality)

Question 8

Insidious

Answer 8

Harmful, damaging, or destructive in a gradual, hidden, or imperceptible way.

Question 9

Meretricious

Answer 9

Definition (options:))
-of or relating to a prostitute
-cheaply ornamental

Question 10

Turgid (literary)

Answer 10

Definition:
-excessively embellished especially in style or language : vainly ostentatious : bombastic, pompous

Question 11

Turgid (medical)

Answer 11

Definition: : distended by or as if by some internal agent or expansive force : being in a normal or abnormal state of distention : swollen, tumid

Question 12

Debauchee

Answer 12

definition: One given to sensual excesses (female)

Question 13

Senile

Answer 13

Characteristic of or related to old age

Question 14

Perturbed

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Def.: disturbed, agitated, upset

Question 15

Septic

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Definition: of an odious or contaminated nature : corrupt, obnoxious

Question 16

menagerie

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Definition: A place where animals are kept for exhibition OR a varied, strange collection of people or things

Question 17

Dilatory

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characterized by procrastination or delay : tardy, slow

Question 18

Vigil

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an act or action of wakeful or devotional watching : watch OR : the act or action of keeping awake especially at times when sleep is customary also : a period of wakefulness OR a protracted and usually lonely stay or sojourn

Question 19

Harrowing

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: acutely distressing or painful : agonizing

Question 20

Julep

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an alcoholic beverage OR a drink consisting usually of sweet syrup, flavoring, and water designed to soothe or stimulate

Question 21

prig

Answer 21

one who offends or irritates by obvious or rigid observance of the proprieties (as in speech, manners, or conduct) : one self-sufficient in virtue, culture, or propriety often in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree OR notably or excessively punctilious person

Question 22

punctilious

Answer 22

marked by precise exact accordance with the details of codes or conventions

Question 23

Rancour

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: vehement hatred or ill will : intense malignity or spite : deep-seated enmity : inveterate malevolence

Question 24

corroborate

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to provide evidence of the truth of : to make more certain : confirm

Question 25

pasquinade

Answer 25

an anonymous lampoon posted in a public place

Question 26

lampoon

Answer 26

: a polemic satire usually directed against an individual