Gatsby Vocab
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AllysonRedhunt on January 20, 2011
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Levity | treatment of a serious matter with humor |
| Supercilious | Behaving superior to others |
| Wistfulness | A feeling of vague or regretful longing |
| Fractiousness | Easily irritated, bad tempered |
| Incredulously | Unwilling or unable to believe something |
| Imperceptibly | Impossible to perceive |
| Contemporary | Following modern ideas or fashion in style or design |
| Languidly | slowly and relaxed. |
| Imperatively | Of vital importance, commandingly. |
| Unobtrusively | Not conspicuous or attracting attention |
| Complacency | A feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's. |
| Extemporizing | improvising. |
| Peremptorily | Absolute |
| Intimation | Subtle, indirect suggestion |
| Contiguous | Sharing a common border; touching |
| Interposed | To place between one thing or another |
| Strident | Loud and harsh; grating |
| Deft | Neat-fully skillful and quick in one's movement |
| Impassioned | Filled with or showing great emotion |
| Vacuous | Showing a lack of thought |
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