The Great Gatsby ch. 8-9 vocab

Match the following:

• ravenous

• sad and depressed; dispirited

• dejected

• stale and unclean smelling

• dejection

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• musty

• extremely hungry

• a large and often sumptuous tent

• a state of melancholy depression

Match the following:

• propriety

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

• scruples

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

• unscrupulous

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

• discern

• difficult or impossible to perceive

• indiscernible

• without principles

Match the following

• tranquil

• a group of people sharing similar wealth and status

• principal

• 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

• stratum

• 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

• strata

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

• principle

• not agitated

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• vestibule

• given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

• redolent

• a large entrance or reception room or area

• capricious

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

• whimsical

• serving to bring to mind

• whim

• a sudden desire

Match the following:

• divot

• the action of bringing something or coming to an end

• termination

• full of trivial conversation

• interminable

• 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

• garrulous

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

• term

• tiresomely long; seemingly without end

Match the following:

• pneumatic

• a person who receives support from an influential person

• protégé

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• Pneumonia

• of little value or importance

• trivial

• relating to or using air or a similar gas

• forlorn

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

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• holocaust

• favored by or involving good luck or fortune; lucky

• amorphous

• an act of mass destruction and loss of life

• fortuitous

• lucky; occurring by happy chance

• morph

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

• fortunate

• having no definite form or distinct shape

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• adventitious

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

• circumstance

• associated by chance and not an integral part

• circumstantial

• suggesting that something is true without proving it

• advent

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

• precede

• 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

Match the following:

• addendum

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• surmise

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• solidarity

• a message expressing an opinion base on incomplete evidence

• superfluous

• a composition that humorously imitates somebody's style

• pasquinade

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Match the following:

• elocute

• humble submission and respect

• elocution

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

• deference

• dot dense or plentiful

• sparse

• to hold back to a later time

• defer

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