Vocabulary Quiz - The Great Gatsby chapters 1-3

____ means to pretend to be affected by something (a feeling, state, or injury) (deft, cower, feign, languid, impenetrable)

Fill in the blank with the correct word.

The ____ cloud of dust stirred up by the train made it difficult to see Wilson's Garage.

• feign

• impenetrable

• incredulous

• coherence

Fill in the blank.

In one ___ movement, Tom broke Myrtle's nose. (feign, deft, languid, innuendo, cower, quick)

Choose the correct word to match the definition.

(adj) acting or done quickly and without thought or care

• impetuous

• vacuous

• innumerable

• strident

Fill in the blank.

Gatsby stood on his dock, staring into the night and looking at the ___ stars.

• cynical

• languid

• innumerable

• incredulous

Create an original sentence that correctly uses the word cynical in context. Bonus point if the sentence is related to The Great Gatsby.

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As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

• (v.) to crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame

• (adv) in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling

• (adj) characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound

• (n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

Which word matches the following definition?

(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

• innuendo

• vacuous

• cower

• conscientious

Create an original sentence that correctly uses the word cower in context. Bonus point if the sentence is related to The Great Gatsby.

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I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.

• (adj) acting or done quickly and without thought or care

• (adj) slow, sluggish, listless, weak

• (adj) harsh sounding; grating

• (adj) impossible to pass through or enter