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The Great Gatsby Vocab. 2 & 3
Harm's 2nd and 3rd Great Gatsby vocab. lists
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English
11th Grade
02/17/2010

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aesthetic
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referring to a sense of beauty; artistic
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eclectic
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carefully selected from many good sources
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gratuitous
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offered freely, but not necessarily under the circumstances unwanted or unneeded
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inevitable
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unavoidable
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irony
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the opposite of what would be normal or expected; humor-based incongruity
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expedient
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suitable, practical, or advisable; also opportunistic
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apocryphal
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of doubtful authorship; fictitious
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heinous
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shockingly awful, appalling; abominable; outrageous
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mundane
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everyday; commonplace, like menial chores
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arduous
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demanding, hard to achieve; strenuous
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prodigal
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wildly extravagent or lavish in spending
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quixotic
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extravagently idealistic; unpredictable; unrealistic or imaginary
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verbose
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wordy
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blasphemy
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irreverance towards something sacred
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vilify
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to slander or defame someone's name
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diatribe
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bitter, critical speech/writing
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vitriolic
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burning or corrosive like acid
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jargon
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dialect or hybrid speech
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satire
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points out flaws in human nature in order to promote change
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tirade
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lengthy, often emotional, critical speech
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slander
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false defamatory criticism of someone
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garble
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change or alter in meaning through misinterpretation of facts
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rhetoric
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insincere or high-flown writing/speech; originally the study of good communication
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garrulous
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extremely talkative; gabby, loquacious verbose
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