Vocabularly for Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby (Ch. 1-2)

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privy

aware of or informted about, of something not generally known

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feign

to pretend to be something; to act or give a false impression of being some way

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restless

Possessed by a feelinbg of nervous agitation or dissastification; unable to relax

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colossal

enormous; astonishingly large; Attack on titan

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fractious

full of anger and hard to control

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intimate

to communicate indirectly; to hint at or suggest something

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buoy

a floatie; to support or uplift; raise the spirit of

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extemproize

to improve verbally'; speak w/o having planned it

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devoid

empty of something; lacking; voided

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sedative

tending to calm or soothe; tending to reduce a personโ€™s nervous excitment

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corroborate

to support with evidence; help prove something via evidence

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saunter

to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner; to stroll

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supercilious

patronizingly haughty; exhibiting an attitude of arrogant superiroity

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contiguous

next to something in geographical space; adjacent

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vicinity

the area around or near a particular place

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indeterminate

not able to be determine or stated in a precise way; vague

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countenance

the face as an expression of mood, emotion, or character; a facial expression that offers approval or moral support

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discreetly

unobtrusively; done w/o drawing undue attention to oneself

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shiftlessness

laziness or passivity; an unwillingness to work; lack of ambition

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strident

unpleasanlty loud or harsh

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incredulously

done in a manner that conveys a reluctance to believe; skeptically

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repel

to drive away, repulse

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console

to give comofrt to someone, esp. after that person had suffered a disappointment

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