✨🥂🎩The Great Gatsby Vocab 🎩🥂✨

Unaffected

v- not influenced or changed mentally

Wistfully

adv- characterized with a feeling of vague or regretful longing; a feeling of melancholy, or yearning

Supercilious

adj- disdainful or contemptuous (scornful), as a person or facial expression

Peremptorily

adv- expressive of urgency or command

Contemptuous

adj- manifesting, feeling, or expressing deep hatred or disapproval

Corroborate

v- to make certain; to support with evidence or authority (as in a court of law)

Pastora

adj- of or relating to the countryside or country people especially in an idealized manner; pleasingly peaceful and innocent

Haughty

adj- blatantly and disdainfully proud: having or show an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior

Proprietary

noun- one that possesses, owns, or holds exclusive right to something; a business secretly owned by and run as a cover for an intelligence organization

Proprietor

noun- an owner; a person with exclusive title or legal right to something

Incredulous

adj- unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true; skeptical

Vehement

adj- marked by forceful energy; intensely emotional; forcibly expressed

Ascertain

v- to find out or learn with certainty; confirm

Provincial

noun- a person of local or restricted interests or outlook; a person lacking urban polish or refinement

Jaunty

adj- spritely in manner or appearance; lively

Cardinal

adj- of basic importance, or very serious/grave

Gonnegtion

noun- misspelling of the word connection used by Meyer Wolfsheim towards Nick to emphasize Wolfsheim’s unique pronunciation of the word

Benediction

noun- the invocation (beginning) of a blessing; the short blessing with which public worship is concluded or with which the congregation is dismissed

Wan

adj- suggestive of poor health; lacking vitality; languid

Gaudy

adj- ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented; marked by extravagance or sometimes tasteless showiness

Conceit

noun- an elaborate strained metaphor

Contingent

adj- subject to change or unseen effects; something that may but is not certain to occur; something liable to happen as a result of something else

Oblivion

noun- the fact or condition of not remembering; the condition or state of being forgotten or unknown

Dilatory

adj- tending or intended to cause delay; characterized by procrastination

Truculent

adj- aggressively self-assertive; scathingly harsh

Incessant

adj- continuing or following without interruption; unceasing

Redolent

adj- aromatic exuding fragrance; evocative, suggestive

Difference between corroborate and ascertain

As verbs the difference between corroborate and ascertain is that corroborate is to confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for while ascertain is to find out definitely; to discover or establish.

REMEMBER:

***Supercilious, Contemptuous, Haughty, and Truculent all have similar meanings/definitions. Take note of the subtle nuances that set the apart from one another and be able to identify such nuances in context.