Great Gatsby Vocab

Unsought

Not wanted attention/advice

Cynical

Pessimistic

Acute

Sharp intense degree

Devoid

To not have something

Privy

Private, secret

Marred

Marked up/damaged

Parceled

Divided, divied up

Complacency

Happy in place

Reproach

Find something disgusting/blameworthy

Supercilious

Arrogant

Vitality

Liveliness

Apathetically

Without emotion

Disdain

Find something disgusting, treat with disrespect

Obscene

Find something highly inappropriate

Facet

Sides, aspects/views or something

Deft

Skillfully, clever

Permeate

To go through/spread everywhere

Innuendo

Imply something suggestive/inappropriate

Proprietor

Owner of business, establishment, property

Disconcerting

Causing one to feel unsettled/inappropriate

Incredulous

Unable to believe it

Unfathomable

Incapable of being fully understood, can’t believe it in sympathetic manner

Harrowed

Haunted/attacked

Obstinate

Stubborn

Defunct

Not functionial

Gaudy

overly decorated (so it becomes ugly)