The Great Gatsby Vocabulary - Sec 2

Since John is an African American, he joined the Black Student Union in college to show _______ for his race.

• ravages

• solidarity

• complacent

• deplorable

Being in the backseat of the car with her grandparents was an ______ experience for the teenage girl.

• interminable

• permeate

• forlorn

• tumultuous

My _______ is that the couple's “good news” is the announcement that they are going to have a baby

• solidarity

• saunter

• complacent

• surmise

John's __________ behavior is going to get him arrested one day

• intermittent

• deplorable

• forlorn

• complacent

We have won a triple crown but the big prize has ______ us three times.

• eluded

• implored

• surmised

• permeated

'What do you want?' he asked, sounding slightly _________.

• truculent

• tumultuous

• intermittent

• interminable

The soldiers returned home to a ______ welcome from their friends and family.

• tumultuous

• ravages

• solidarity

• complacent

The second half of his presidency was focused on increasingly ______ attempts to bring peace to his country.

• forlorn

• elude

• implore

• interminable

A feeling of anxiety _______ the office as we rushed to meet the deadline.

• surmised

• permeated

• eluded

• implored

That monument has been affected by the _________ of time and it is now in complete disrepair.

• saunters

• surmise

• deplorable

• ravages