Fitzgerald vocab (Winter Dreams and The Great Gatsby)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 materialism | a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important that spiritual values |
| fallowness | plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production |
| fortuitous | happening by accident or chance rather than design |
| vitality | the state of being strong and active |
| contemptuously | scornfully |
| sinuous | having many curves and turns |
| poignant | evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret |
| feign | pretend to be affected by |
| supercilious | behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others |
| wan | pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion |
| cower | crouch down in fear |
| apathetic | showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm or concern |
| languid | displaying or having a disinclination |
| vacuous | having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence |
| jauntily | having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner |
| ecstatic | feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement |
| obstinate | stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so |
| laudable | deserving praise and commendation |
| repose | temporary rest from activity, excitement or exertion |
| debauch | destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt |
| ingratiate | bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them |
| perturb | to make someone anxious or unsettled |
| desolate | deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness |
| elusive | difficult to find, catch, or achieve |
| portentous | done in a pompously or overly solemn manner so as to impress |
| irreverent | showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously |
| vicarious | experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person |
| rancor | bitterness or resentfulness |
| formidable | inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable |
| incoherent | expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear |
| forlorn | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely |
| superfluous | unnecessary, especially through being more than enough |
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