The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Flashcards by Jordyn Lewis | Brainscape

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adventitious

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happening by chance

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garrulous

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excessively talkative

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gaudy

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extravagantly showy

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ingratiate

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gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts

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inquest

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inquiry

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interminable

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endless

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inviolate

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safe from harm or desecration

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irreverent

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lacking proper respect

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magnanimous

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kind and generous

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meretricious

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tastelessly showy

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portentous

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indicating something important will happen

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precipitately

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done with very great haste and without due deliberation

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stagnant

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not circulating or flowing

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turgid

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pretentiously lofty in style

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vicarious

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indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute

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holocaust

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widespread destruction

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amorphous

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without a distinct form

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Trimalchio

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a character in the Satyricon by Petronius

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caravansary

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large inn or hotel

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grail

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something being pursued greatly