Gatsby - Vocab. Def's #2

The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Definitions #2 Name:

1. amorphous (adj.) – formless; without a clearly defined shape or form.

2. garrulous (adj.) – excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, esp. about trivial matters.

3. insidious (adj.) – gradually or subtly harmful

4. nebulous (adj.) – hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused

5. obstinate (adj.) – inflexible; stubborn; not yielding

6. superfluous (adj.) – being more than is sufficient or required; excessive; unnecessary or needless.

7. wan (adj.) – if an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color

8. aesthetic (n.) – a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement; beautiful qualities

9. antecedent (n.) – a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon

10. euphemism (n.) – the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant

11. menagerie (n.) – a wild, varied combination of things

12. notoriety (n.) – the quality or state of being notorious; fame (usually for bad reasons)

13. rancor (n.) – resentment or ill will; hatred; malice

14. reverie (n.) – the condition of being lost in thought

15. exalt (v.) – to raise in rank, power, or character

16. harrow (v.) – cause distress to

17. pander (v.) – to provide gratification or indulge others’ desires

18. pervade (v.) – spread throughout and be perceived in every part of

19. surmise (v.) – to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.

20. fortuitously (adv.) – fortunate, lucky, coming or happening by a lucky chance

21. indefinitely (adv.) – vague; having no exact limits

22. invariably (adv.) – on every occasion; always

23. magnanimously (adv.) – showing or suggesting nobility and generosity in mind toward an enemy

24. precipitately (adv.) – very quickly or suddenly and usually without enough care and thought

25. vicariously (adv.) – felt imaginatively by observing others’ experiences