Gatsby Vocabulary Chapter 1

Sharing in the knowledge of something secret or private

• privy

• levity

• elation

Great happiness

• privy

• levity

• elation

Humor, silliness, lack of appropriate seriousness

• privy

• levity

• elation

Lacking, empty, without something

• imperative

• devoid

• sedative

Crucial, essential, or urgent

• imperative

• devoid

• sedative

Able to calm or soothe

• imperative

• devoid

• sedative

Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others; stuck-up

• supercilious

• fractiousness

• conscientious

Wishing to do one’s work or duty well and thoroughly; careful

• supercilious

• fractiousness

• conscientious

The tendency to cause trouble or conflict

• imperceptible

• fractiousness

• levity

Unable to be perceived (seen or heard)

• imperceptible

• fractiousness

• levity