Gatsby Vocab, pages 2-3

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Showing scorn or hatred

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Contemptuously

Front

Crucially; with an authoritative command

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Imperatively

Front

Willingness to believe too readily

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Credulity

Front

False, malicious publication

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Libel

Front

pale, weak, strained

Back

wan

Front

lacking liveliness

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languidly

Front

Offensively self-assured or unwarranted power

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Peremptory

Front

Offensively self-assured or unwarranted power

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Peremptory

Front

Done in return

Back

Reciprocal

Front

not believable; shows disbelief

Back

incredulously