The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Words

**Write words and definitions in your notebook ONE CLASS DAY BEFORE the chapter is to be read. Include PART OF SPEECH with definition. **Page #s correspond to the earlier edition – close, but not the same if you have the new edition Ch 1 privy (p. 5) unaffected (6) sinister (9) extemporizing fractiousness (11) supercilious (11) incredulously (15) contributory (22) peremptorily (24) libel (24) Ch 2 contiguous (29) sumptuous (29) anaemic (29) ectoplasm (34) proprietary (34) hauteur (35) gypped (38) kyke (38) Ch 3 cataracts (43) credulity (48) homogeneity (49) condescend (49) verb spectroscopic (49) echolalia (54) obstetrical (55) vinous (56) discordant (58) din (58) caterwauling (60) crescendo (60) chasm (61) Ch 4 sporadic (68) punctilious (68) labyrinth (68) olfactory (73) hearse (73) modish (73) slang somnambulate* (74) juxtaposition (74) denizen (77) sauterne (81)

Ch 5 elongating (86) scrutinize (89) harrowed (90) defunct (91) harrowed(90) abounded (93) serfs (93) disheveled (96) pompadour (99) Ch 6 laudable (103) meretricious (104) ineffable (105) reveries (105) ramification (105) turgid (106) contingency (106) ingratiate (107) perturb (107) pervading (110) obliterate (116) incarnation (117) Ch 7 caravansary (120) bona fide (122) genial (124) theoretical (128) abyss (128) inviolate (131) precipitately (131) portentous (134) irreverent (134) row (n., as on 134) libertine (137) prig (135) vicariously (138) rancor (139)

slander (142) Ch 8 redolent (155) strata (156) liable (156) grail (156) in cahoots (162) corroborate (161) incorruptible (162) laden (170) holocaust (170) Ch 9 inquest (171) reverent (179) elocution (181) complacent (184) interminable (185) inquisition (185) provincial (188) pander (189) transitory (189) aesthetic (189) commensurate