The Great Gatsby Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fractiousness

the quality of being troublesome or quarrelsome; irritability

Prodigality

the quality of being recklessly extravagant; wasteful expenditure

Subterfuges

deception in order to conceal, escape, or evade; a deceptive device

Punctilious

marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions

Meretricious

tawdrily or falsely attractive

Turgid

excessively embellished in style or language; bombastic

Euphemism

the substitution of a mild or agreeable term in place of a more offensive one

Obtrusive

forward in manner or conduct; undesirably prominent

Portentous

of, relating to, or constituting a foreshadowing, prophesy, or omen

Truculent

feeling or displaying ferocity; cruel, savage, aggressively self-assertive

Redolent

exuding fragrance; aromatic

Garrulous

pointlessly or annoyingly talkative

Fortuitously

occurring in an accidental (usually fortunate) manner

Amorphous

having no definite form, shapeless; lacking organization or unity

Contingency

an event that is of possible but uncertain occurrence

Vicariously

in a manner experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another

Unscrupulously

in a manner lacking principles or ethics

Forlorn

sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion; desolate

Interminable

having or seeming to have no end

Solidarity

unity that is based on community of interests, objectives, and standards