Gatsby 1 quotes

"Now he was a study, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a ______ manner.

• incessant
• supercilious
• infinitesimal
• strident

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"but there was an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget; a singing ____, a whispered Listen"

• innuendo
• discreet
• compulsion
• vitality

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

You live in West Egg, she remarked _________. I know somebody there.

• stridently
• disconcertingly
• vacuously
• contemptuously

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

After an ______ hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod and she winked at me again . . .

• infinitesimal
• innuendo
• inept
• erroneous

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty _____ about everything.

• strident
• cynical
• supercilious
• vacuous

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

 . . . there was an immediate perceptible _____ about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering."

• strident
• innuendo
• compulsion
• vitality

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York--or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat ____ in another car.

• vacuously
• discreetly
• contemptuously
• stridently

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails _____ the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual _____ and introductions.

• strident/dissension
• inept/sporadic
• permeate/innuendo
• ascertain/compulsion

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When she moved about there was an ____ clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down upon her arms.

• inept
• vacuous
• infinitesimal
• incessant

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild _____ argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.

• incessant
• punctilious
• strident
• disconcerting

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4