American Lit Vocab-Gatsby Ch 2-4

Contiguous

• sharing a common border; touching.
• an inhabitant or occupant of a particular place.
• wrong; incorrect.
• one side of something many-sided

Facet

• one side of something many-sided
• distorted and unnatural in shape or size
• spread throughout (something); pervade.
• occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated.

Erroneous

• wrong; incorrect.

• having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.

• showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.

• rise and fall irregularly in number or amount.

Vacuous

• having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.
• occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated.
• sharing a common border; touching.
• distorted and unnatural in shape or size

Sporadic

• occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated.
• one side of something many-sided
• rise and fall irregularly in number or amount.
• an inhabitant or occupant of a particular place.

Denizen

• an inhabitant or occupant of a particular place.

• rise and fall irregularly in number or amount.

• one side of something many-sided

• having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.

Vehement

• showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.

• sharing a common border; touching.

• occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated.

• wrong; incorrect.

Fluctuate

• rise and fall irregularly in number or amount.
• showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.
• having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.
• spread throughout (something); pervade.

Permeate

• spread throughout (something); pervade.
• wrong; incorrect.
• distorted and unnatural in shape or size
• showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.

Grotesque

• distorted and unnatural in shape or size
• spread throughout (something); pervade.
• an inhabitant or occupant of a particular place.
• sharing a common border; touching.