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supercilious |
Describing Tom Buchanan: "Now he was a sturdy man of thirty, with a rather hard mouth and a ___ manner." |
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effeminate |
Describing Tom Buchanan: "Not even the ___ swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body." |
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fractiousness |
Describing Tom Buchanan: "His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of ___ he conveyed." |
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extemporizing |
Nick: "This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only ___, but a stirring warmth flowed through her..." |
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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..." |
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supercilious |
"...his determination to have my company bordered on violence. The ___ assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do." |
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anaemic |
Describing George Wilson: "He was a blonde, spiritless man, ___, and faintly handsome." |
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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." |
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prodigality |
"Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with ___, tipped out at a cheerful word." |
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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..." |
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corpulent |
"I had expected that Mr Gatsby would be a florid and ___ person in his middle years." |
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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." |
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caterwauling |
"The ___ horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away..." |
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nonolfactory |
"...with the city rising up across the river with white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of ___ money." |
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haughty |
"I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in ___ rivalry." |
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gonnegtion |
Mr Wolfshiem: "I understand you are looking for a business ___." |
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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." |
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obstinate |
"Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been ___ about being peasantry." |
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nebulous |
"He was now decently clothed in a 'sport shirt', open at the neck, sneakers, and duck trousers of a ___ hue." |
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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." |
