The Great Gatsby vocabulary quiz

supercilious

• pertaining to various anatomical structures of the eye

• being at or near the surface

• showing arrogant disdain or haughtiness

• animated; vivacious; effervescent

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

contiguous

• tending to argue; quarrelsome

• clamorous

• making compatible; reconciling

• having a common boundary or edge

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

interpose

• To place or come between; to intervene or interrupt

• intrude upon

• to assume a particular attitude or stance

• situate between cells of an organism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

vacuous

• without definite course; indirect

• excessively tidy

• devoid of matter

• pertaining to the vesicles in organic tissue

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

corpulent

• projecting or pointing upward

• extremely overweight

• immature or inexperienced

• refined or enlightened

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

somnambulate

• walk in one's sleep

• to confuse or deject

• dark and dull; gloomy

• to represent numbers by symbols

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

denizen

• a person who inherits land from a deceased spouse

• shameless or impudent

• a plant or animal naturalized in a region

• to speak damagingly of

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

dilatory

• tending to waste time or procrastinate

• fallen into ruin or decay

• beheaded

• hard-working

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

portentous

• resembling a sea creature

• able to be carried from place to place

• producing powerful chemical or physical effects

• of momentous significance

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

vicarious

• tending to showy displays of affection

• experienced second-hand

• religious

• prone to violence

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4