The Great Gatsby Chapter 3 Vocabulary

To engage in long and tiresome work; to labor with great effort and at long length. 

• permeate

• toil

• vehemently

• gaudy

Tastelessly showy or extravagant; marked by a garish ornamentation that reflects bad taste. 

• provincial

• vacuous

• elude

• gaudy

To spread throughout an area; to diffuse through something. 

• permeate

• vehemently

• homogeneity

• vacuous

Done with passionate emotion; fervidly. 

• convivial

• provincial

• elude

• vehemently

The quality of being made up of the same kind of people or things; the opposite of heterogeneity or diversity. 

• homogeneity

• vacuous

• dissension

• elude

Empty of ideas or content; lacking meaning or substance; hollow, superficial. 

• toil

• vacuous

• gaudy

• homogeneity

Of or related to the provinces or country life; having a narrow mind or limited outlook; lacking a broad-minded or worldly outlook.  

• provincial

• vehemently

• permeate

• convivial

Fond of the pleasure of good company. 

• elude

• convivial

• homogeneity

• gaudy

Disagreement that causes people to argue. 

• dissension

• permeate

• toil

• vehemently

To escape one’s perception or understanding; to avoid being grasped. 

• elude

• toil

• provincial

• vehemently