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Gatsby List 2
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02/15/2005
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dilatory
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lazy, slow
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expectant
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waiting, eager
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caravansery
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hotel, inn
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harrowing
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nerve-wracking, agonizing, upsetting
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commutation
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the act or process of commuting, moving from one place to another
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affront
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insult, outrage, offense
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oppressive
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stifling, stuffy
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contingency
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emergency
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inexplicable
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mysterious, puzzling
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inviolate
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pure, sacred, untouchable
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precipitately
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hastily, quickly
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sensuous
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lucious, sensory, delicious
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tumultuous
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chaotic, disorderl, uproarious
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portentous
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ominous, forboding, threatening
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libertine
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hedonist, pleasure-seeker
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prig
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prude
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rancor
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bitterness
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truculent
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belligerent, combative, aggressive
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despicable
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disgraceful, ourtrageous
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intimacy
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privacy, affection
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redolent
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fragrant, odorous
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grail
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the object of a difficult and extended quest
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cahoots
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partnership, league (used as "in cahoots")
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holocaust
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catastrophe, destruction, annihilation