Great Gatsby Vocab Flashcards
supercilious
Haughtily contemptuous, arrogant
Contiguous
Next to, adjoining, touching
Spectroscopic
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
Echolalia
Definition: the often pathological repetition of what is said by other people as if echoing them
Denizen
Definition: Inhabitant, resident
Cornices
Definition: Projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition
Wan
Definition (options)
-pallid, sickly
-dim
-showing little effort (Languid)
-faint
feeble (lacking human vitality)
Insidious
Harmful, damaging, or destructive in a gradual, hidden, or imperceptible way.
Meretricious
Definition (options:))
-of or relating to a prostitute
-cheaply ornamental
Turgid (literary)
Definition:
-excessively embellished especially in style or language : vainly ostentatious : bombastic, pompous
Turgid (medical)
Definition: : distended by or as if by some internal agent or expansive force : being in a normal or abnormal state of distention : swollen, tumid
Debauchee
definition: One given to sensual excesses (female)
Senile
Characteristic of or related to old age
Perturbed
Def.: disturbed, agitated, upset
Septic
Definition: of an odious or contaminated nature : corrupt, obnoxious
menagerie
Definition: A place where animals are kept for exhibition OR a varied, strange collection of people or things
Dilatory
characterized by procrastination or delay : tardy, slow
Vigil
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
Harrowing
: acutely distressing or painful : agonizing
Julep
an alcoholic beverage OR a drink consisting usually of sweet syrup, flavoring, and water designed to soothe or stimulate
prig
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
punctilious
marked by precise exact accordance with the details of codes or conventions
Rancour
: vehement hatred or ill will : intense malignity or spite : deep-seated enmity : inveterate malevolence
corroborate
to provide evidence of the truth of : to make more certain : confirm
pasquinade
an anonymous lampoon posted in a public place
lampoon
: a polemic satire usually directed against an individual
