Great Gatsby Flashcards by Lizel Lizaso

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Banns

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public announcement of intention to marry

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Deft

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dexterous, skillful

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Extenporizing

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speaking on the spur if the moment without prepeeation

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fractiousness

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quarrelsome

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hulking

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large and threatening

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indredulously

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with disbelief

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languidly

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slowly and listlessly

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peremptorily

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in a harsh decisive manner, allowing no response

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superlicious

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haughty,compemtuous

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contiguous

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adjacent, next to eachother

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ectoplasm

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a ghostly emanation

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hauteur

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haughtiness, arrogance

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incessant

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constant

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pastoral

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relating to an idealized natural setting

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saunter

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to stroll

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strident

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harsh sounding, sheill

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ascertain

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to find out

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cataracts

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floods of water; wavess

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constrained

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compelled

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echolalia

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babble; the habit of repeating what other people say

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innuendo

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a derogatory hint or insinuation

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permeate

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to spread through a substance

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Staid

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very proper and conservative in behavior

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denizen

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inhabitant

disconcerting

upsetting; confusing

fluctuate

to vary;change

jauntily

gaily,stylishly

olfactory

referring to the sense of smell

somnanbulatory

in a sleepwalking manner

defunct

completely broken, dead

harrowed

distressed; vexed

nebuluous

vague

reproach

blame

serfs

a slave bound to a land and owned by a lord

vestige

trace, remnant

dilatory

tardy, slow moving

laudable

praiseworthy

proximity

nearness

septic

dirty, infectious

turgid

inflated in language, bombastic

caranvasary

large inn, I the Middle East to accommodate caravans

meretricious

characteristic if a prostitute

portentous

ominous

precipitately

hastily

prig

an overly proper. or punctilious person

truculent

cruel, savage, destructive

forlorn

forsaken, pitiable

fortuitously

by chance

garrulous

talkative

indiscernable

imperceptible

pervading

spread throughout

redolent

fragrant, imbued with an idor

adventitious

accidental

commensurate

equal

complacent

self satisfied

deranged

driven mad

transitory

quickly passing; momentary

vacuous

emoty