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Gatsby Vocab Review 3-4

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To engage in long and tiresome work; to labor with great effort and at long length.

a)

toil

b)

elude

c)

resourcefullness

d)

disembodied

2.

tastelessly showy or extravagant; marked by a garish ornamentation that reflects bad taste.

a)

dissension

b)

punctilious

c)

gaudy

d)

dispense

3.

to spread throughout an area; to diffuse through something.

a)

permeate

b)

convivial

c)

disconcerting

d)

engrossed

4.

done with passionate emotion; fervidly.

a)

provincial

b)

vehemently

c)

strained

d)

threadbare

5.

the quality of being made up of the same kind of people or things; the opposite of heterogeneity or diversity.

a)

denizen

b)

homogeneity

c)

vacuous

d)

breeding

6.

empty of ideas or content; lacking meaning or substance; hollow, superficial.

a)

breeding

b)

homogeneity

c)

disembodied

d)

vacuous

7.

related to the provinces or country life; having narrow mind or limited outlook; lacking broad-minded or worldly outlook

a)

vehemently

b)

dispense

c)

threadbare

d)

provincial

8.

fond of the pleasure of good company.

a)

convivial

b)

permeate

c)

engrossed

d)

disconcerting

9.

disagreement that causes people to argue.

a)

strained

b)

dissension

c)

gaudy

d)

punctilious

10.

to escape one’s perception or understanding; to avoid being grasped.

a)

resourcefulness

b)

toil

c)

elude

d)

denizen

11.

the ability to cope with a difficult situation; the ability to find solutions to difficult problems.

a)

resourcefulness

b)

toil

c)

disembodied

d)

elude

12.

very careful about behaving properly or conducting oneself in accordance with social conventions.

a)

dissension

b)

gaudy

c)

dispense

d)

punctilious

13.

causing a person to lose their composure or equanimity; upsetting or troubling.

a)

permeate

b)

disconcerting

c)

convivial

d)

engrossed

14.

worn out by overuse; used so often that its interest or freshness has been exhausted; hackneyed, trite, or clichéd.

a)

strained

b)

threadbare

c)

provincial

d)

vehemently

15.

good manners that result from training in the kinds of behavior expected from wealthy people.

a)

breeding

b)

homogeneity

c)

vacuous

d)

denizen

16.

someone who frequents a particular place; a regular.

a)

vacuous

b)

breeding

c)

denizen

d)

toil

17.

done with effort; not friendly and relaxed.

a)

gaudy

b)

threadbare

c)

strained

d)

provincial

18.

completely attentive to someone or something; immersed or absorbed, esp. in some activity.

a)

engrossed

b)

convivial

c)

disconcerting

d)

permeate

19.

to give out, distribute, or provide.

a)

vehemently

b)

punctilious

c)

dissension

d)

dispense

20.

detached from the body; bodiless.

a)

elude

b)

disembodied

c)

resourcefulness

d)

homogeneity