Gatsby Vocabulary Review

Front

Which of the following is an example of contemptuous behavior?

• booing a public speaker
• welcoming an honored guest
• interviewing a controversial author
• contacting an old classmate

Back

booing a public speaker

Front

complacency

Back

the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

Front

When would someone most likely have to extemporize?

Back

when giving an unplanned speech

Front

levity

Back

glee

Front

supercilious

Back

sneering

Front

Elation ("It was hard to overstate the mood of elation Saturday at Cowboys Stadium, which will host next season’s Super Bowl.")

Back

lightness

Front

unobtrusive

Back

not undesirably noticeable

Front

fractious

Back

disobedient

Front

fracious ("You can't go, Miss Standish!" he said, in stern command, as if rebuking some fractious child.)

Back

disobedient

Front

peremptory

Back

high-and-mighty