The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1 - 4

Question 1

privy

Answer 1

participating in the knowledge of something private or secret

Question 2

feigned

Answer 2

pretended

Question 3

suppressions

Answer 3

things held back or kept hidden

Question 4

supercilious

Answer 4

arrogant

Question 5

fractiousness

Answer 5

irritableness; being quarrelsome

Question 6

extemporizing

Answer 6

improvising

Question 7

preemptory

Answer 7

arrogantly self-assured

Question 8

contiguous

Answer 8

adjoining, continuing without a break

Question 9

hauteur

Answer 9

arrogance

Question 10

languid

Answer 10

listless, lacking spirit

Question 11

deft

Answer 11

clever, skillful

Question 12

cower

Answer 12

to crouch as in fear or shame

Question 13

facet

Answer 13

aspect, side or phase

Question 14

strident

Answer 14

having a shrill or irritating quality

Question 15

corpulent

Answer 15

large or bulky of body; stout; fat

Question 16

impetuously

Answer 16

impulsively

Question 17

provincial

Answer 17

unsophisticated

Question 18

prodigality

Answer 18

extravagance; wastefulness

Question 19

cynical

Answer 19

bitterly distrustful

Question 20

affectation

Answer 20

artificial behavior

Question 21

vacuous

Answer 21

lacking in ideas or intelligence

Question 22

punctilious

Answer 22

scrupulously exact

Question 23

elicit

Answer 23

to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke

Question 24

disconcerting

Answer 24

confusing, frustrating

Question 25

levity

Answer 25

lightness, humor