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WorksheetsVocabulary Quiz - The Great Gatsby chapters 1-3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 34mins
(a) means to pretend to be affected by something (a feeling, state, or injury) (deft, cower, feign, languid, impenetrable)
Fill in the blank with the correct word.
The ____ cloud of dust stirred up by the train made it difficult to see Wilson's Garage.
feign
impenetrable
incredulous
coherence
Fill in the blank.
In one (a) movement, Tom broke Myrtle's nose. (feign, deft, languid, innuendo, cower, quick)
Choose the correct word to match the definition.
(adj) acting or done quickly and without thought or care
impetuous
vacuous
innumerable
strident
Fill in the blank.
Gatsby stood on his dock, staring into the night and looking at the ___ stars.
cynical
languid
innumerable
incredulous
Create an original sentence that correctly uses the word cynical in context. Bonus point if the sentence is related to The Great Gatsby.
Read the sentence carefully. Based on how the underlined word is used in the sentence, choose the best definition.
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
(v.) to crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame
(adv) in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling
(adj) characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
Which word matches the following definition?
(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
innuendo
vacuous
cower
conscientious
Create an original sentence that correctly uses the word cower in context. Bonus point if the sentence is related to The Great Gatsby.
Read the sentence carefully. Based on how the underlined word is used in the sentence, choose the best definition.
I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.
(adj) acting or done quickly and without thought or care
(adj) slow, sluggish, listless, weak
(adj) harsh sounding; grating
(adj) impossible to pass through or enter
Because Daisy can be appear to show a lack of thought or intelligence and sometimes make empty, mindless statements, others might describe her as ______.
vacuous (adj)
fegin (v)
languid (adj)
cynical (adj)
Which of the following words fits the definition below
(n) A principle demanding that the parts of any composition be arranged so that the meaning of the whole may be immediately clear and intelligible.
deft
impenetrable
coherence
incredulous
In chapter one, Fitzgerald explains that Daisy and Jordan had been lying around on the couch all day doing nothing. When they finally get up for dinner, he says that they move languidly. What does that mean?
(adj) characterized by extreme care and great effort
(adj) unwilling or unable to believe something; skeptical
(v.) to crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame
(adj) slow, sluggish, listless, weak
What is the meaning of the word conscientious?
(adj) unwilling or unable to believe something; skeptical
(adj) characterized by extreme care and great effort
(adj) doubtful or distrustful of the goodness or sincerity of human motives
(adj) harsh sounding; grating
On their drive to New York, Gatsby tells Nick all about this backstory. However, the stories are so ridiculous sounding that Nick doesn't immediately believe Gatsby. Therefore, Nick is _______ about the truth of those stories.
feign
incredulous
innuendo
impetuous
