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Gatsby Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| abortive | fruitless; cut short |
| abruptly | suddenly |
| acute | sharp; keen |
| audible | able to be heard |
| banns | public announcement of a proposed marriage |
| ceased | stopped |
| coherence | clarity |
| compelled | driven; forced |
| complacency | selfsatisfaction |
| conferred | bestowed |
| contemptuous | disdainful |
| contour | shape |
| conviction | certain belief |
| corroborated | confirmed |
| deft | skillful |
| divan | couch |
| elations | joys |
| 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 | negative thinker |
| prominent | at the forefront; wellknown |
| proximity | nearness |
| pungent | strongsmelling |
| reciprocal | , mutual, returned |
| riotous | exuberant |
| rotogravure | old method of developing photographs |
| sedative | calming |
| submerged | put under |
| supercilious | coolly haughty |
| superficial | shallow; surfacelevel |
| tangible | solid; touchable |
| turbulent | disturbed; in commotion |
| unaffected | natural |
| uninflected | toneless; unaccented |
| unobtrusively | without anything getting in the way |
| vigil | watch |
| wan | pale; sickly |
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