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Great Gatsby vocab
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English
11th Grade
09/11/2010

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"There was a touch of paternal contempt in his voice"
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adj. of, like, or from a father
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"there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around"
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adj. mistaken
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"and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets"
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n. a little stream
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"I could see nothing sinister about him"
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adj. wicked; threatening harm
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"traversed the gravel softly"
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v. to pass over, across, or through
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"a white ashen dust veiled his dark suit"
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adj. like ashes, esp. in color
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"a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo"
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n. sly remark, usually derogatory
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"the dispute ended in a short struggle"
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n. debate
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"the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock"
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adj. no longer existing
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"he had committed himself to the following of a grail"
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n. the object of a quest
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"Well, I married him,' said Myrtle ambiguously."
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adv. vaguely
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"what do you think? He demanded impetuously."
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adv. impulsively
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"he's a bootlegger"
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n. one who makes or sells liquor illegally
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"duck trousers of a nebulous hue"
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adj. unclear, vague
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"repairing the ravages of the night before"
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n. destruction or ruin
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"Mr. Gatsby would be a florent and corpulent person in his middle years"
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adj. obese, fat
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"Gatsby's car lurched up the rocky drive"
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v. to swagger
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"the sauntered over to my house"
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v. strolled
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"he wasn't on the veranda"
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n. an open porch, along the outside of a building
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"he smiled with jovial condescension"
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adj. cheerful
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"breaking through his punctilious manner"
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adj. very precise about behavior
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"a path of fruit rinds"
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n. a hard outer layer or covering
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