The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Ch 1 & 2

Languid

• displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed

• one side of something many-sided, especially of a cut gem

• showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements

• wishing to do what is right, especially to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly

To pretend

• Complacent

• Feign

• Intimation

• Infinite

Cower

• crouch down in fear

• place or insert between one thing and another

• sharing a common border; touching

• loud and harsh; grating.

Deft

• one side of something many-sided, especially of a cut gem

• neatly skillful and quick in one's movements

• displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed

• unwilling or unable to believe something

clothed

• Anon

• Clad

• Strident

• Languid

loud and harsh; grating

• Strident

• Apathetic

• Interpose

• Recirpocal

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to other

• Supercilious

• Anon

• Feign

• Incredulous

strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated)

• Cower

• Interpose

• Imply

• Deft

Wishing to do what is right, especially to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly

• Infinite

• Intimation

• Complacent

• Conscientious

sharing a common border; touching

• Contiguous

• Cowe

• Apathetic

• Deft