Quizlet The Great Gatsby - usage

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  1. anaemic: Describing George Wilson: "He was a blonde, spiritless man, ___, and faintly handsome."
  2. caterwauling: "The ___ horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away..."
  3. cornices: Nick: "Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark ___ and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms."
  4. corpulent: "I had expected that Mr Gatsby would be a florid and ___ person in his middle years."
  5. ectoplasm: "...I gathered later that he was a photographer and has made the dim enlargement of Mrs Wilson's mother which hovered like an ___ on the wall."
  6. effeminate: Describing Tom Buchanan: "Not even the ___ swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body."
  7. extemporizing: Nick: "This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only ___, but a stirring warmth flowed through her..."
  8. fractiousness: Describing Tom Buchanan: "His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of ___ he conveyed."
  9. gonnegtion: Mr Wolfshiem: "I understand you are looking for a business ___."
  10. haughty: "I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in ___ rivalry."
  11. meretricious: "He was a son of God - a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and ___ beauty."
  12. nebulous: "He was now decently clothed in a 'sport shirt', open at the neck, sneakers, and duck trousers of a ___ hue."
  13. nonolfactory: "...with the city rising up across the river with white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of ___ money."
  14. obstinate: "Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been ___ about being peasantry."
  15. prodigality: "Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with ___, tipped out at a cheerful word."
  16. rotogravure: Describing Jordan Baker: "I knew now why her face was familiar - its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many ___ pictures of the sporting life at Ashville..."
  17. supercilious: Describing Tom Buchanan: "Now he was a sturdy man of thirty, with a rather hard mouth and a ___ manner."
  18. supercilious: "...his determination to have my company bordered on violence. The ___ assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do."
  19. tortuously: "There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden: old men pushing young girls backward in the eternal graceless circles, superiour couples holding each other ___, fashionably, and keeping in the corners..."
  20. vinous: "A humorous suggestion was made that she sind the notes on her face, whereupon she threw up her hands, sank into a chair, and went off into a deep ___ sleep."