The Great Gatsby ch. 8-9 vocab

Match the following:

• musty

• a state of melancholy depression

• dejected

• extremely hungry

• a large and often sumptuous tent

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• ravenous

• sad and depressed; dispirited

• dejection

• stale and unclean smelling

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• propriety

• a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action

• indiscernible

• to detect with the eyes : distinguish; to come to know, recognize, or understand

• scruples

• the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness; conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech

• discern

• without principles

• unscrupulous

• difficult or impossible to perceive

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• stratum

• first in order of importance; main; (of money) denoting an original sum invested or lent; the person with the highest authority or most important position in an organization, institution, or group

• tranquil

• a group of people sharing similar wealth and status

• principle

• not agitated

• strata

• a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior

• principal

• a layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground; a level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education, or income; plural of stratum

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• vestibule

• playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way; acting in a capricious manner

• redolent

• a large entrance or reception room or area

• whimsical

• given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

• capricious

• a sudden desire

• whim

• serving to bring to mind

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• garrulous

• a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway

• interminable

• full of trivial conversation

• term

• the action of bringing something or coming to an end

• divot

• a word or phrase used to describe a thing or to express a concept, especially in a particular kind of language or branch of study; a fixed or limited period for which something

• termination

• tiresomely long; seemingly without end

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• trivial

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• pneumatic

• inflammation and fluid in your lungs caused by a bacterial, viral or fungal infection

• Pneumonia

• of little value or importance

• protégé

• relating to or using air or a similar gas

• forlorn

• a person who receives support from an influential person

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• amorphous

• lucky; occurring by happy chance

• fortuitous

• having no definite form or distinct shape

• holocaust

• change smoothly from one image to another by small gradual steps using computer animation techniques

• morph

• an act of mass destruction and loss of life

• fortunate

• favored by or involving good luck or fortune; lucky

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• circumstantial

• come before (something) in time; come before in order or position; go in front or ahead of

• precede

• suggesting that something is true without proving it

• advent

• the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event; the first season of the Christian church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding Sunday

• circumstance

• a fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action; one's state of financial or material welfare

• adventitious

• associated by chance and not an integral part

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• solidarity

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• superfluous

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• pasquinade

• a message expressing an opinion base on incomplete evidence

• addendum

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• surmise

• a composition that humorously imitates somebody's style

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• defer

• humble submission and respect

• sparse

• an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture

• deference

• dot dense or plentiful

• elocute

• declaim- utter or deliver words or a speech in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience

• elocution

• to hold back to a later time