He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career — when he saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor over the most ______ flat on Lake Superior.

A universe of _______ gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.

The none too savory ________ by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid subjournalism of 1902. H

...he provided for such contingencies by ______ more and more trust in Gatsby.

A massive and ______ woman, who had been urging Daisy to play golf with her at the local club to-morrow, spoke in Miss Baedeker’s defence:

appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old ________ and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing

“Madame expects you in the salon!” he cried, needlessly indicating the direction. In this heat every extra gesture was an _____ to the common store of life.

“Bles-sed pre-cious,” she _____, holding our her arms.

“Plenty of gas,” said Tom _________. He looked at the gauge. “And if it runs out I can stop at a drug-store. You can buy anything at a drug-store nowadays.”

“Please don’t.” Her voice was cold, but the ______ was gone from it. She looked at Gatsby. “There, Jay,” she said — but her hand as she tried to light a cigarette was trembling.

“Go on. He won’t annoy you. I think he realizes that his ______ little flirtation is over.”

Only the [man] and I were near enough to hear what he said, but the policeman caught something in the tone and looked over with _____ eyes.

I must have felt pretty weird by that time, because I could think of nothing except the _______ of his pink suit under the moon.

The blind was drawn, but I found a ____ at the sill.