Gatsby Vocab #1-5 sentences

"When she moved about there was a(n) _______ clinking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down her arms." Nick describing Myrtle's sister Catherine.

• contemptuous

• incessant

• cynical

• perceptible

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." Daisy to Nick after the dinner party.

• perceptible

• incessant

• wistful

• cynical

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I had no sight into Daisy's heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little _____ for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game." Nick's thoughts about Tom.

• wistful

• perceptible

• incessant

• contemptuous

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," [Jordan] said ______. "I know somebody there." Jordan's conversation with Nick.

• incessantly

• contemptuously

• wistfully

• perceptibly

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately _____ vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering." Nick's description of Myrtle when he first sees her.

• cynical

• perceptible

• wistful

• contemptuous

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