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Gatsby_Ch. 1&2_Vocab

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"I was ______ to the secret griefs of wild unknown men."

a)

privy

b)

feign

c)

levity

d)

supercilious

2.

"Frequently I had _____ sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity..."

a)

privy

b)

feigned

c)

levity

d)

supercilious

3.

"Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile _____..."

a)

privy

b)

feigned

c)

levity

d)

supercilious

4.

“Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a _________ manner.”

a)

privy

b)

feigned

c)

levity

d)

supercilious

5.

"Not even the _________ swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat."

a)

effeminate

b)

cynical

c)

libel

d)

grotesque

6.

"Well, I've had a very bad time and I am _______ about everything "

a)

effeminate

b)

cynical

c)

libel

d)

grotesque

7.

"It's a _______. I'm too poor"

a)

effeminate

b)

cynical

c)

libel

d)

grotesque

8.

This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and _______ gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

a)

effeminate

b)

cynical

c)

libel

d)

grotesque

9.

But [Doctor Eckleburg's] eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under the sun and rain, brood on over the ______ dumping ground.

a)

solemn

b)

vitality

c)

smoldering

d)

disdain

10.

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal _______ of his illusion.

a)

solemn

b)

vitality

c)

smoldering

d)

disdain

11.

“…but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually _________.”

a)

solemn

b)

vitality

c)

smoldering

d)

disdain

12.

“I like your dress,” remarked Mrs. McKee, “I think it’s adorable.”Mrs. Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eyebrow in ________. “It’s just a crazy old thing,” she said. “I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care how I look.”

a)

solemn

b)

vitality

c)

smoldering

d)

disdain

13.

“I'll telephone my sister Catherine." Then she ______ over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

a)

flounced

b)

strident

c)

a "wave"

d)

...

14.

"I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, ______ argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair."

a)

flounced

b)

strident

c)

a "wave"

d)

...

15.

"With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of _____, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool."

a)

flounced

b)

strident

c)

waves

d)

...