Gatsby vocab chapters 5-9

Receptacle

A container or device used to hold or store something.

Colossal

Extremely large or massive in size or extent.

Nebulous

Lacking definite form or limits; vague, uncertain, cloudy

Meretricious

superficially attractive but having no real value or integrity.

Ineffable

Too great or extreme to be expressed in words; indescribable.

Turgid

swollen and distended; excessively ornate or complex in style.

libertine

A person who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.

Prig

A self-righteously moralistic person, often critical of others' behavior.

Dilatory

tending to delay or procrastinate; slow to act.

Corrugated

Shaped into alternated ridges and grooves; think cardboard

Pervaded

(especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of.

Wan

Pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion

Languidly

an action done slowly, lazily, and without energy, effort, or haste