Vocabulary Quiz - The Great Gatsby chapters 1-3

____ means to pretend to be affected by something (a feeling, state, or injury) (deft, cower, feign, languid, impenetrable)

Fill in the blank with the correct word.

The ____ cloud of dust stirred up by the train made it difficult to see Wilson's Garage.

• feign

• impenetrable

• incredulous

• coherence

Fill in the blank.

In one ___ movement, Tom broke Myrtle's nose. (feign, deft, languid, innuendo, cower, quick)

Choose the correct word to match the definition.

(adj) acting or done quickly and without thought or care

• impetuous

• vacuous

• innumerable

• strident

Fill in the blank.

Gatsby stood on his dock, staring into the night and looking at the ___ stars.

• cynical

• languid

• innumerable

• incredulous

Create an original sentence that correctly uses the word cynical in context. Bonus point if the sentence is related to The Great Gatsby.

Read the sentence carefully. Based on how the underlined word is used in the sentence, choose the best definition.

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

• (v.) to crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame

• (adv) in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling

• (adj) characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound

• (n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

Which word matches the following definition?

(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

• innuendo

• vacuous

• cower

• conscientious

Create an original sentence that correctly uses the word cower in context. Bonus point if the sentence is related to The Great Gatsby.

Read the sentence carefully. Based on how the underlined word is used in the sentence, choose the best definition.

I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.

• (adj) acting or done quickly and without thought or care

• (adj) slow, sluggish, listless, weak

• (adj) harsh sounding; grating

• (adj) impossible to pass through or enter