Gatsby List #4

Attracting attention in a vulgar manner

• denizen
• somnambulatory
• meretricious
• libertine

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

Swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language

• turgid

• genial

• portentous

• facade

fierce and cruel; aggressive; deadly, destructive; scathingly harsh

• truculent

• portentous

• turgid

• magnanimous

noble; generous

• magnanimous

• portentous

• meretricious

• harrowing

extremely distressing; disturbing or frightening

• harrowing

• genial

• vicarious

• truculent

cordial, pleasantly cheerful or warm

• genial

• ingratiate

• precipitate

• fiasco

to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others

• ingratiate

• contemptuous

• begrudge

• precipitate

suddenly; hastily

• precipitately

• vicariously

• haughtily

• genially

of momentous or ominous significance

• portentous

• magnanimous

• vicarious

• meretricious

experiencing something by imagined participation in anther's experience.

• vicariously

• precipitately

• truculently

• portentously