Great gatsby Flashcards
Elicit
To bring out a response, to evoke
Endow
To provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality
Engrossed
Completely occupied or absorbed
Euphemism
Substituting an inoffensive or less offensive term for one that is offensive
Exalt
To glorify, praise, raise in rank
Feint
A false appearance, a fake punch to occupy defenses allowing a real blow
Ferocity
Savagery
Fervent
Ardent, showing great emotion, impassioned
Florid
Flowery, flushed with color
Interminable
Having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted
Inviolable
Secure from violation or from being profaned
Jaunty
Stylish and lovely in manner or appearance
Juxtapose
To place close together or side by side
Labyrinthine
Like a maze, very convoluted and the intricate
Languid
Slow, sluggish, listless, weak
Laud
To praise, to extol
Legacy
A gift by will, something handed down by an ancestor or predecessor
Lethargic
Sluggish, languid
Levity
Excessive frivolity, flippancy
Luxuriant
Abundant growth, very fertile
Magnanimity
Having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit
Malevolence
ill will or having evil intentions
Plagiarize
To steal and use another’s writings as one’s own
Pneumatic
Pertaining to air or gas
