The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Ch 1 - 3

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

• interposed

• contiguous

• impetuous

• supercilious

the quality of being lively, strong, and full of energy

• contiguously

• impetuously

• congeniality

• vitality

cheerful and friendly

• interposed

• extemporizing

• incredulously

• convivial

suddenly, impulsively

• sensuously

• impetuously

• incredulously

• imperatively

tending to calm or soothe

• convivial

• disdain

• sedative

• ascertain

the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of respect

• disdain

• ascertain

• supercilious

• subterfuge

speaking without preparation; improvising

• subterfuge

• extemporizing

• interposed

• retracted

in a way that is pleasing to the senses

• ascertain

• sensuously

• incredulously

• convivially

in a manner indicating disbelief

• incredulously

• imperatively

• impetuously

• retracted

placed between haughtily

• retracted

• interposed

• disdain

• sedated