The Great Gatsby Vocab

With intense feeling

• commensurately

• Vehemently

• erroneously

• conscientiously

Peaceful; simple

• debauch

• dilatory

• portentous

• strident

• pastoral

lacking definite form, shape or content

• vestige

• defunct

• nebulous

• obstinate

an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

• juxtaposition

• somnambulate

• fluctuate

• punctilious

paying scrupulous attention to correctness in etiquette; attentive to detail

• somnambulate

• punctilious

• fluctuate

• juxtaposition

the act of moving, lying, or extending in differrent direction from a commom point

• divergence

• fluctuate

• somnambulance

• juxtaposition

sociable; jovial or festive

• provincial

• pastoral

• vacuous

• convivial

having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to peopleliving in the provinces; rustic or umsophisticated

• provincial

• vacuous

• pastoral

• impetuous

containing nothing; empty; mindless

• impetuous

• provincial

• vacuous

• pastoral

liable to act without consideration; rash; impulsive

• impetuous

• vacuous

• provincial

• dissension