Great Gatsby Vocabulary

supercillous

(adj) coolly and patronizingly haughty

languid

(adj) drooping or flagging from exhaustion; sluggish; listless

complacency

(n) self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers

vitality

(n) physical or mental vigour, lively animation,: it distinguishes the living from the nonliving

discreet

(adj) discerning; showing good judgment; capable of preserving prudent silence

apathetic

(adj) having orhsowing little or no emotion; indifferent

prodigality

(n) reckless extravagance; wasteful and lavish expenditure; profuse luxury

credulity

(n) undue readiness of belief

vacuous

(adj) emptied of or lacking content, marked by lack of ideas or intelligence; inane

punctilious

(adj) concerned about precise exact accordance with the details of codes/conventions

incredulity

(n) disbelief

juxtaposition

(n) the act or instance of placing two or more things side by side

vestige

(n) a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something vanished or lost

nebulous

(adj) indistinct; vague

insidious

(adj) awaiting a chance to entrap; treacherous; harmful but enticing; seductive

meretricious

(adj) of or relating to a prostitute; tawdrily and falsely attractive; gaudy

ineffable

(adj) incapable of being expressed in words; indescribable; unspeakable

portentous

(adj) prophetic; foreshadowing a coming event; ominous

vicarious

(adj) experienced through imaginative participation in the experience of another

magnanimous

(adj) showing a lofty and courageous spirit; having nobility of feeling and generosity of mind

malice

(n) desire to see another suffer; intent to cause harm

grail

(n) the object of an extended or difficult quest

benediction

(n) an expression of good wishes; a blessing; something that promotes goodness or well-being

transitory

(adj) tending to pass away; temporary; transient; of brief duration

aesthetic

(adj) of/relating to/appreciative of/responsive to the beautiful and the artistic