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Great Gatsby Chapter 2-3 Vocabulary
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| ambiguously | capable of being understood in more than one way |
| anemic | lacking vitality |
| commenced | began |
| contiguous | next to; adjacent |
| countenance | appearance |
| deferred | postponed |
| discreetly | unnoticeably |
| hauteur | arrogance; haughtiness |
| incessant | constant and uninterrupted |
| indeterminate | vague; indefinable |
| initiative | enterprise |
| jovially | merrily |
| mincing | affectedly dainty |
| obscure | vague |
| oculist | optometrist |
| pastoral | peaceful; rural |
| proprietary | possessive |
| strident | harsh and insistent |
| transcendent | overcoming; rising (above) |
| vicinity | surrounding area |
| wag | joker |
| apparition | vision; ghost |
| ascertain | determine |
| asunder | apart |
| cataracts | waterfalls |
| caterwauling | noisily crying |
| convivial | festive |
| cordial | warm; heartfelt |
| corpulent | stout |
| credibility | believability |
| credulity | a willingness to believe on slight evidence, naivite |
| crescendo | rise in volume |
| deplorably | lamentably |
| discordant | clashing; out of harmony |
| dissension | disagreement |
| divergence | departure |
| echolalia | condition in which one repeats what others have said |
| eluded | escaped |
| erroneous | mistaking |
| florid | ruddy |
| fortnight | two weeks |
| fraternal | friendly; brotherly |
| harlequin | multicolored |
| homogeneity | sameness; similarity |
| impetuously | impulsively and forcefully |
| ineptly | foolishly |
| innuendo | unpleasant reference |
| insolent | overbearing |
| loitered | lingered |
| malevolence | ill will |
| notorious | well-known |
| obligingly | in an accommodating way |
| permeate | spread through |
| poignant | moving; affecting |
| prodigality | lavishness |
| provincial | unsophisticated |
| rent | torn |
| retracted | took back |
| speculation | wondering |
| subterfuges | deceptions |
| tortuously | in a winding, circuitous manner |
| tumultuous | confused and disorderly |
| vacuous | empty of content |
| vehemently | powerfully; passionately |
| vinous | wine-induced |
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