The Great Gatsby Vocab

Privy

• Sharing in the knowledge (something secret or private)

• Passing on a rumor.

• Sharing information with a persons permission.

• False information.

Elation

• Sincerity

• Sadness.

• A feeling of great joy or pride.

• A feeling of wanting to be separate from the world.

Wistfully/ Wistful

• Melancholy

• Craziness

• loving

• caring

Supercilious

• Disdainful or contemptuous as a person or facial expression.

• Making another peer feel bad.

• Dishonesty

• Sincerity.

Incredulously/ Incredulous

• Clueless

• Knowing whats happening.

• Knowledge of something.

• skeptical

Contemptuously

• Sad

• Expressing contempt; scornfull

• Happiness

• Joy

Countenance

• How a person moves

• Physical appearance

• Expression of face

• A persons mentality.

Haughty

• Disdainfully proud

• Overachiever

• Hard Worker

• Dumb

Innuendo

• Scared

• Fearless

• Not afraid

• Indirect intimidation

Erroneous

• Mistaken

• Correct

• Fixed a mistake

• Afraid of making an error