The Great Gatsby Ch3 Vocabulary

Individualistically

• doing something entirely on your own without influence from others

• Doing something for selfish reasons

• Dividing something up into two pieces

• Following others and doing whatever they do

Erroneous

• something extremely incorrect and way out of context

• something extremely correct and totally true

• To remove something slowly over time

• To take a long time to figure out, longer than usual

Profound

• a state, quality, or emotion of very great meaning, usually personal

• Something shallow and basic

• The best way to find something lost

• The quality or state of staying still and never growing

Obligingly

• In a way that shows willingness to do a service or kindness

• Rudeness in a way unnecessary

• The shape of something not quite a circle

• To make someone do something they do not want to do

Acting or done quickly and without thought or care.

• Impetuously

• Ascertain

• Incomprehensible

• Jovial

To find something out for certain

• Impetuously

• Ascertain

• Incomprehensible

• Jovial

Not able to be understood; a thought never to be thought of

• Impetuously

• Ascertain

• Incomprehensible

• Jovial

Condescension

• An attitude of patronizing superiority, treating someone lesser than the high value you have of yourself

• Treating everyone the same way regardless of status or perceived value

• To fall down a large flight of steps

• The attitude that you can take advantage of a situation and give yourself success

Cheerful and friendly. Lighthearted and full of laughter

• Impetuously

• Ascertain

• Incomprehensible

• Jovial

Match the following

• The most AWESOME teacher ever!!

• Peculiar

• to be enchanting and delightful

• Gaudy

• repulsively ugly or overly distorted

• Grotesque

• strange or odd; unusual in a suspicious manner

• Bewitched

• extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless

• Ms. Gluth