Great Gastby Vocab

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Fractiousness

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Inclined to make trouble; lack of discipline

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Feigned

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To give false appearance of

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Exempt

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Free from obligation, duty or liability to which others are subject

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Bantering

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To speak to in a playful way; tease

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Complacency

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A feeling if contentment or self satisfaction; usually coupled with an unawareness of danger or trouble

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Intimation

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An indirect suggestion; vague understanding

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Desolate

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Devoid of inhabitants; deserted

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Supercilious

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Feeling or showing haughty disdain; proud

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Contagious

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Sharing an edge or boundary; touching

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Apathetic

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Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern

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Languid

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Lacking energy; weak

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Hauteur

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Haughtiness in bearing and attitude

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Prodigality

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Extravagant wastefulness; profuse generosity

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Vehemently

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Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction

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Extemporizing

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Improvising

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Credulity

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A disposition to believe too readily

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Cynical

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Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity

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Convivial

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Fond of feasting, drinking ; sociable

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Affectation

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A show, pretense or display; artificial

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Punctilious

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Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct

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Somnambulant

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To walk when asleep

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Labyrinth

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An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find a way; maze

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Disconcerting

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To upset the self-procession of; ruffle

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Strident

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Making or having a harsh sound

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Abstract

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Considered apart from concrete existence; not applied or practical

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Juxtapose

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To place side by side; use for comparing and contrasting

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Defunct

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Having ceased to exists or live

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Abortive

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Failing to accomplish an intended objective; fruitless

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Distraught

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Deeply agitated from emotional conflict

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Vestige

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A visible trace, evidence or sign that something once existed but no longer does.

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Turgid

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excessively ornate or complex in style or language

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Contingency

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An event that may occur but not likely; a possibility

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Profusion

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Abundance; lavish or unrestrained expense

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Oblivion

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the condition or quality or being completely forgotten

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Saunter

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Stroll

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay or postpone

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Affront

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An open or intentional offense

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Abyss

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Immeasurably deep chasm

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Inviolate

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Not violated

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Intermittent

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Stopping and staring at intervals; periodic

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Presumptuous

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Going beyond what is right and proper; excessively forward

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Formidable

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Difficult to undertake of defeat

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Corpulent

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Obese

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Incessant

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Continuing without interruption

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Ravenously

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Extremely hungry; voracious

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Pervaded

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To be present throughout; permeate

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Amorphous

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Lacking definite shape

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Holocaust

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Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life

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Adventitious

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Not inherent but added extrinsically; accidental

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Superfluous

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Being beyond what is required or sufficient

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Deferred

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To put off or postpone

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Jaunty

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Having a buoyant or self confident air

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Distort

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To twist out of proper or natural relation or parts; misshape

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Transitory

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Existing or lasting only a short time; temporary

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Incoherent

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Lacking cohesion, connection or harmony

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Sumptuous

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A size or splendor suggesting great expense

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Facet

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One of numerous aspects; as of a subject

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Vacuous

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Devoid of matter; empty

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Dilatory

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Intending to cause delay

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Meretricious

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Attractive in a vulgar way

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Ineffable

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To great to be described in words

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Insidious

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Slyly treacherous

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Truculent

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Cruel; savage

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Magnanimous

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Generous in forgiving an insult or injury

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Portentous

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Ominously significant or indicative