English Great Gatsby Vocab

meretricious

meretricious

apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity

supercilious

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others

wistfulness, wistful

Showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing; yearning or longing

languidly/languid

adv./adj. - lacking energy or vitality; weak

Impetuously (impetuous)

(adv) impulsive, not restrained

provincial

(adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; (n.) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony

indignant, indignantly

feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base

incredulous (adj) , incredulously (adv)

skeptical; disbelieving

poignant

(adj.)evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

punctilious

(adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety

ingratiate

(v.) to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others

Euphemisms

a word used in place of another word that is viewed as more disagreeable or offensive

magnanimous

generous in forgiving, above small meanness

ravenously

with excessive greed and hunger; voraciously

unscrupulously

having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair

garrulous

given to much talking, tediously chatty

fortuitously

by accident or chance

tantalizing

tempting; tormenting or teasing by keeping something in sight but out of reach

apparition

(n.) a ghost or ghostly figure; an unexplained or unusual appearance

sentimental

of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.