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

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Skeptically

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Infinitesimal

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Incalculably small

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Intimation

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Hint

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Irrelevant

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Wholly unimportant

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Languidly

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Sluggishly

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Levity

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Lightness; frivolousness

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Parcelled

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Given; measured

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Paternal

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Fatherly

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Peremptorily

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Urgently; commandingly

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Pessimist

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Negative thinker

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Preceded

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Went before

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Prominent

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At the forefront; well-known

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Proximity

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Nearness

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Pungent

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Strong-smelling

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Reciprocal

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Returned

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Riotous

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Exuberant

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Rotogravure

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Old method of developing photographs

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Sedative

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Calming

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Submerged

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Put under

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Supercilious

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Coolly haughty

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Superficial

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Shallow; surface-level

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Tangible

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Solid; touchable

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Turbulent

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Disturbed; in commotion

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Unaffected

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Natural

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Uninflected

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Toneless; unaccented

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Unobtrusively

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Without getting in the way

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Vigil

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Watch

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Wan

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Pale; sickly