The Great Gatsby Vocabulary

to make believe; pretend

• Reproach

• feign

• Supercilious

• Wan

Behaving or thinking one is superior to others

• shiftless

• Hauteur

• peremptory

• Supercilious

Pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion

• Prodigal

• Strident

• Wan

• Fractious

The expression of disapproval or disappointment

• Reproach

• Grotesque

• Anemic

• Malevolence

Distrusting criticizing, or mocking the motives of others.

• Vestige

• Harrowed

• Cynical

• Tactless

irritable and quarrelsome; difficult to control, unruly

• Obliged

• Feign

• Fractious

• Nebulous

insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way.

• Poignant

• Discordant

• Anemic

• Peremptory

Fantastically ugly or absurd

• Grotesque

• Anemic

• Hauteur

• Strident

Lacking power; weak

• Feign

• Anemic

• Nebulous

• Prodigality

Haughtiness of manner; disdainful pride

• Cynical

• Vestige

• Discordant

• Hauteur