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The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Chapter 1
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| abortive | fruitless, cut short |
| abruptly | suddenly |
| acute | sharp, keen |
| audible | able to be heard |
| banns | public announcement of a proposed marrage |
| ceased | stopped |
| coherence | clarity |
| compelled | drove, forced |
| complacency | self-satisfaction |
| conferred | bestowed |
| contemptuous | disdainful |
| contour | shape |
| conviction | certain belief |
| corroborated | confirmed |
| deft | skillful |
| divan | couch |
| elation | joy |
| epigram | short, witty poem or saying |
| erect | upright |
| extemporizing | improvising |
| fervent | intensely glowing |
| fractiousness | quarrelsomeness |
| hardy | tough |
| imperatively | commandingly |
| incredulously | skeptically |
| infinitesimal | incalculably small |
| intimation | hint |
| irrelevant | wholly unimportant |
| languidly | sluggishly |
| levity | lightness, frivolousness |
| parcelled | given, measured |
| paternal | fatherly |
| peremptorily | urgently, commandingly |
| pessimist | negitive thinker |
| preceded | went before |
| prominent | at the forefront |
| proximity | nearness |
| pungent | strong smelling |
| reciprocal | returned |
| riotous | exuberant |
| rotogravure | old method of developing photographs |
| sedative | calming |
| submerged | putunder |
| supercilious | coolly, haughty |
| superficial | shallow, surface level |
| tangible | solid, touchable |
| tubulent | disturbed |
| unaffected | natural |
| uninflected | toneless, unaccented |
| unobtrusively | without getting in the way |
| vigil | watch |
| wan | pale, sickly |
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