The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Chapters 4-6

Distressed

• Harrowed

• Sporadic

• Retribution

• Reverie

Something justly deserved; taking revenge or correcting a wrong.

• Reverie

• Retribution

• Menagerie

• vestige

Happening at irregular intervals

• Harrowed

• Somnambulatory

• Sporadic

• Rajah

A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydrea,

• Tactless

• Reverie

• Letgargic

• Menagerie

Painstaking; meticulous; strict attention to minute details

• Punctilious

• Tactless

• Harrowed

• Menagerie

Stubbornly adhering to attitude, opinion, or course of action

• Lethargic

• Somnambulatory

• Juxtaposition

• Obstinate

To place under a debt of gratitude for some benefit, favor or service

• Menagerie

• Obliged

• Ineffable

• Meretricious

Incapable of being expressed; indescribable

• Harrowed

• Obliged

• Vestige

• Ineffable

Alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions

• Lethargic

• Nebulous

• Meretricious

• Reverie

A collection of wild or unusual animals, or an unusual and varied group of people

• Sporadic

• Punctilious

• Menagerie

• Retribution