Gatsby Vocab List

n. a set of observable manifestations of an experienced emotion: the facial expressions, festures, postures, vocal intonations, etc., that typically accompany an emotion

n. speech or conduct not natural to oneself: an unnatural form or behavior meant especially to impress others

v. to give a false appearance of

n. a lightness of manner or speech

v. to inflict damage, especially a disfiguring damage

n. a concise, clever, often paradoxical statement

v. to improvise

having characteristics associated with women

n. a doubting or questioning attitude or state of mind

n. a physician who treats diseases of the eyes

n. a false publication that damages a person’s reputation

adj. inclined to make trouble; unruly

adj. putting an end to all debate or action; in a commanding manner

adj. feeling or showing haughty disdain

adj. sharing an edge or boundary; touching

adj. exclusively owned, private

n. one who has legal title to something; owner

adj. loud, harsh, shrill

adj. limited in perspective (internet: of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded)

n. extravagant wastefulness; extreme abundance; lavishness

adj. in a sudden way, without considering the results of your actions; impulsively

n. being of the same kind

adj. strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct

adj. upsetting

n. inhabitant; resident

adj. extremely distressing

n. a visible trace, evidence

adj. spreading harmfully

n. the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive

adj. attracting attention in a vulgar way

adj. beyond expression

v. to bring into the favor of another, especially by deliberate effort

adj. lucky or fortunate

v. to reason earnestly in an effort to dissuade or correct

adj. deserving commendation; praiseworthy

adj. coming from outside; not essentially inherent; accidental; additional

n. a union of interests/purposes among members of a group

adj. of or relating to air

adj. showing in a tasteless or vulgar way

adj. of a size, extent, or degree that elicits awe or taxes belief

adj. going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward

adv. into parts or pieces; in different directions; apart

adj. separated; not close; apart

n. self-satisfaction; smugness

adj. fat; fleshy; stout

v. to avoid or escape from by quickness; evade; baffle

n. a pleasant-smelling colorless flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalant anesthetic, inducing insensitivity to pain (also the upper regions of air beyond the clouds; heavens)

adj. highly colored (said of the complexion); highly decorated; gaudy; showy; ornate

adj. too small to be measured; infinitely small

adj. stylish; chic; easy and careless; gay and swaggering

adv. without vigor or vitality or vitality; drooping; weak; without interest or spirit; listless; indifferent; sluggish; dull; slow

v. to go or move back; to withdraw; to become more distant

v. to accuse of and blame for a fault; rebuke; reprove; censure

adj. empty; having or showing lack of intelligence; senseless; inane; characterized by lack of purpose; idle

adj. of, having the nature of, or characteristic of wine

adj. sickly pale; pallid; colorless; indicative or suggestive of a sickly condition or great wariness, grief; dark; gloomy; sad

n. an oblique allusion; hint; insinuation

n. readiness or willingness to believe on slight or uncertain evidence

intransitive verb. to walk when asleep

n/adj. the noun a pronoun refers to; a preceding event, condition, or cause

adj. tending or intended to cause delay; characterized by procrastination; tardy

adv. manifesting, feeling, or expressing contempt

adj. serving instead of someone or something else; experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another

adj. showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit; showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind

n. a freethinker especially in religious matters; a person who is unrestrained by convention or morality; specifically: one leading a dissolute life

adj. feeling or displaying ferocity; destructive; aggressively self-assertive; belligerent

adj. exuding fragrance; evocative of

adj. having no definite form; being without defined character

adj. exceeding what is sufficient or necessary; unnecessary

v. to cater to or exploit the weaknesses of others