Gatsby_Vocab Ch. 3-5

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails _______ the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

• permeate

• innuendo

• erroneous

• homogeniety

There were three married couples and Jordan’s escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent _______, and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.

• permeate

• innuendo

• erroneous

• homogeniety

A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her, and there is a burst of chatter as the ______ news goes around that she is Gilda Gray’s understudy from the FOLLIES.

• permeate

• innuendo

• erroneous

• homogeniety

Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified _______, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country-side — East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.

• permeate

• innuendo

• erroneous

• homogeniety

Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by ________.

• dissension

• bootlegger

• knickerbockers

• retribution

“He’s a ______,” said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. “One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

• dissension

• bootlegger

• knickerbockers

• retribution

He came only once, in white _________, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden.

• dissension

• bootlegger

• knickerbockers

• retribution

“I’ll tell you God’s truth.” His right hand suddenly ordered divine _________ to stand by. “I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West — all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition.”

• dissension

• bootlegger

• knickerbockers

• retribution

” The _______ of these two remarks was startling. Gatsby answered for me: “Oh, no,” he exclaimed, “this isn’t the man.” “No?” Mr. Wolfsheim seemed disappointed. “This is just a friend. I told you we’d talk about that some other time.”

• juxtaposition

• succulent

• obliged

• scrutinized

A _______ hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfsheim, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy.

• juxtaposition

• succulent

• obliged

• scrutinized