Great Gatsby Vocab Flashcards
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Abruptly
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Suddenly
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Abortive
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Fruitless; cut short
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Acute
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Sharp; keen
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Audible
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Able to be heard
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Banns
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Public announcement of a proposed marriage
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Ceased
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Stopped
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Coherence
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Clarity
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Compelled
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Drove; forced
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Complacency
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Self-satisfaction
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Conferred
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Bestowed
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Contemptuous
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Disdainful
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Contour
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Shape
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Conviction
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Certain belief
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Corroborated
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Confirmed
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Deft
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Skillful
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Divan
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Couch
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Elations
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Joys
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Epigram
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Short, witty poem or saying
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Erect
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Upright
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Extemporizing
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Improvising
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Fervent
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Intensely glowing
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Fractiousness
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Quarrelsomeness
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Hardy
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Tough
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Imperatively
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Commandingly
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Incrediously
Skeptically
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Infinitesimal
Incalculably small
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Intimation
Hint
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Irrelevant
Wholly unimportant
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Languidly
Sluggishly
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Levity
Lightness; frivolousness
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Parcelled
Given; measured
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Paternal
Fatherly
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Peremptorily
Urgently; commandingly
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Pessimist
Negative thinker
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Preceded
Went before
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Prominent
At the forefront; well-known
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Proximity
Nearness
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Pungent
Strong-smelling
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Reciprocal
Returned
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Riotous
Exuberant
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Rotogravure
Old method of developing photographs
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Sedative
Calming
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Submerged
Put under
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Supercilious
Coolly haughty
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Superficial
Shallow; surface-level
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Tangible
Solid; touchable
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Turbulent
Disturbed; in commotion
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Unaffected
Natural
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Uninflected
Toneless; unaccented
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Unobtrusively
Without getting in the way
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Vigil
Watch
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Wan
Pale; sickly
