Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Vocabulary

"You eat with your hands!” scoffed Maya ______________________________.  “That is so gross.”

• savored
• contemptuously
• privy
• acute

They ______________________________ every last morsel of food practically licking the plate clean.

• deft
• elated
• savored
• feigned

Our neighbor loudly ______________________________ us for tromping through his yard.

• pungent
• cynical
• intimated
• reproached

His ______________________________ comments left the waitress feeling defeated despite her trying to make their dining experience pleasurable.

• pungent
• privy
• languid
• acute

There were no secrets in the little village to which he was not _____________________________.

• languid
• savor
• privy
• deft

The mother kept ______________________________ at her ailing son's bedside the entire time he was in the hospital.

• vigil
• feign
• elation
• pungent

I would never ______________________________ an illness just to get out of a test.

• languid
• contemptuous
• feign
• savor

Grandma has become more ______________________________ in her old age; she won’t even open the door to Girl Scouts selling cookies.

• savored
• elated
• cynical
• privy

The photographer is known for her ______________________________ use of lighting.

• contemptuous
• pungent
• vigil
• deft

It was a hot, ______________________________ summer day; nothing could get us to move from the couch.

• languid
• elated
• privy
• deft