Great Gatsby Vocab

5 Written Questions

1. happening or produced by chance; accidental.
2. a famous American railway builder.
3. forced, compelled, or obliged.
4. the enclosed entrance to a passenger car on a train.
5. J.P. Morgan, a wealthy American industrialist.

5 Matching Questions

1. laudable
2. saunter
3. caravansary
4. transitory
5. septic

1. a to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll.
2. b pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
3. c deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable.
4. d not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
5. e any large inn or hotel.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
   1. defunct
   2. reproach
   3. serf
   4. morgan
2. the cup Christ used at the Last Supper and often sought in Medieval times; hence, the goal of a quest.
   1. clog
   2. turgid
   3. serf
   4. grail
3. disordered; disarranged; insane.
   1. denizen
   2. vestige
   3. deranged
   4. defunct
4. a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
   1. duster
   2. postern
   3. deft
   4. serf
5. tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
   1. ulster
   2. transitory
   3. dilatory
   4. duster

5 True/False Questions

1. hauteur → a con man.

   True        False

2. pneumatic → filled with or containing compressed air, as a tire.

   True        False

3. strident → making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking.

   True        False

4. olfactory → of or pertaining to the sense of smell.

   True        False

5. conceits → a wealthy Roman.

   True        False