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Great Gatsby Vocab
Vocab words from chapter 1-6
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Language - English
11th Grade
01/13/2009
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Fractious
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Irritable and likely to complain or misbehave
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Peremptory
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dictatorial/expressing urgency
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Contiguous
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sharing a bounday
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Vacuous
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lacking idea or intelligence, lacking attention, lacking content
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Incredulous
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showing disbelief
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Feign
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to pretend, invent or copy something
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Exempt
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not subject to something
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Unobstrusive
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not obvious
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Bantering
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joking lightheartedly
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Languid
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without energy
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Intimation
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an indirect connection
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Complacency
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the state of being self-confident
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Credulity
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gullibility
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Subterfuge
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something designed in order to deceive
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Ascertain
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to find out something with certainty
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Denizen
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resident
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Devoid
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completely lacking in something
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Innunedo
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a hint of something improper
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Lethargic
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Physically slow and mentally dull
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Confound
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be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
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Vicarious
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getting pleasure through someone else
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Truculent
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aggressively defiant
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Garrulous
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pointlessly talkative
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Formidable
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extremely impressive in strength or excellence
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Portentous
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of momentous or ominous significance
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Fortuitous
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an event happening by lucky chance
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Amorphous
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without shape
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Commensurate
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(preposition with)-equal in size
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Corroborate
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confirm
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Transitory
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not permanent or lasting
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