Great Gatsby vocab

Ch 1-4

supercilious

Behaving as if you are better, smarter, or more important than other people

incredulously

Acting in a way that shows disbelief, shock, or an inability to accept that something is true

imperatively

Doing something in a way that is extremely urgent, important

extemporizing

make something up on the spot

sedative

Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize nervousness or excitement

contiguous

Next to or touching another, usually similar, thing:

sensuously

Affecting or relating to the physical senses, rather than pleasing the mind

vitality

Physical or mental vigour, energy,

interpose

To place between; cause to intervene.

disdain

Despise, contemn, scorn. To view as unworthy of one's notice or consideration

convivial

Friendly, lively

impetuously

Acting in a sudden, harsh way

ascertain

To discover a fact; to make certain

retracted

To withdraw, to take back

subterfuge

Trick, lies, dishonest way of getting something

punctilious

Very careful to behave correctly or to give attention to details.

disconcerting

Making someone feel uncertain and uncomfortable or worried.

evasion

Intentionally avoiding doing something that you have a duty or responsibility to do

somnambulatory

Resembling the actions of a person who walks while asleep

disembodied

seeming not to be connected to a body