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2nd Set Gatsby Vocab

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What word should you put in the following space?

She was only ______, but a stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

a)

coherence

b)

devoiding

c)

extemporizing

d)

cynical

2.

Put the correct word into the sentence: After an ______ hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod, and she winked at me again.

a)

contemptuous

b)

Infinitesimal

c)

coherence

d)

inflect

3.

Put the correct word into the sentence: The ______ of a moving car wavered across the moonlight.

a)

Sauntered

b)

Impenetrable

c)

Obscure

d)

Silhouette

4.

Which word should you use in the following blank?

He turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at the table, ______ about chatted with whomsoever he knew.

a)

sauntered

b)

Proprietor

c)

contiguous

d)

obscure

5.

What word would you put in the following blank? The storm clouds were stirred up which ____ most people's view of the ocean that afternoon.

a)

contemptous

b)

obscured

c)

silhoutte

d)

peremptory

6.

Which word best fits the sentence? Elizabeth Holmes wanted to sound masculine, so she _____ her voice.

a)

inflected

b)

Infinitesimal

c)

Sauntered

d)

Proprietor

7.

Which word best fits the blank? Florida and Georgia are separated by a ______line.

a)

Infinitesimal

b)

Contiguous

c)

Supercilious

d)

Desolate

8.

What word best fits into the sentence?  The _____ appeared in the office door, and he asked to know how the work was coming along.

a)

cynical

b)

pungent

c)

proprietor

d)

silhouette

9.

What word fits into the sentence the best? It is _____ that the boy gets the surgery, or he could lose his entire arm.

a)

Peremptory

b)

Contemptuous

c)

Infinitesimal

d)

Extemporizing

10.

Which word best fits into the sentence? The kitchen had a sort of _____ about it in which one could walk in put his jacket away and move about the room without getting in a family member's way.

a)

coherence

b)

decisively

c)

devoid

d)

cynical

11.

What does the following word mean? Proprietor

a)

a doctor

b)

a teacher

c)

the owner of a business

d)

a financer

12.

What does the following word, "sauntered" mean?

a)

to stroll

b)

to run

c)

to sing

d)

to whistle

13.

What does the following word, silhouette mean?

a)

to modify one's voice

b)

outline of something

c)

distrusting or disparaging the motives of others

d)

without

14.

What does the following word, coherence, mean?

a)

not clear or plain

b)

showing or expressing contempt

c)

logical connection

d)

to walk, stroll

15.

What does the following word, extemporizing, mean?

a)

minute; tiny

b)

destitute

c)

to be unclear

d)

to manage in a makeshift way.

16.

Which word fits into the sentence? The cat gave the the dog a _____ glare as if she hated him.

a)

wistful

b)

contemptuous

c)

levity

d)

deft

17.

Which word best fits into the sentence? The little old man _____ his thoughts about life to his grandson.

a)

conferred

b)

pungent

c)

desolate

d)

accentuated

18.

Which word best fits into the blank? There was a _____ boundary between the kitchen and the living room. It wasn't completely open concept.

a)

contiguous

b)

bantering

c)

decisively

d)

pungent

19.

Which word best fits into the sentence? Well, I’ve had a very bad time Nick, and I’m pretty ____ about everything

a)

bantering

b)

cynical

c)

wistful

d)

feign

20.

Which word best fits into the sentence? Whenever they saw the spider, the little kids went from calm to _____.

a)

imperceptibly

b)

ecstatic

c)

wistful

d)

desolate