Gatsby Ch. 1-3 Vocabulary

Supercilious means:

• touching or in contact

• Behaving or looking as though one is superior

• to interfere or interrupt

• done quickly; without thought or care

Contiguous means:

• not able or willing to believe something

• a feeling of dislike or disapproval

• to learn or find out with certainty

• touching or in contact

Interpose means:

• expressing command in a forceful and confident way

• cheerful, friendly, lively

• to interfere or interrupt

• doing something without preparation; improvising

Impetuously means:

• done quickly; without thought or care

• to learn or find out with certainty

• a feeling of dislike or disapproval

• touching or in contact

Imperatively means:

• to interfere or interrupt

• doing something without preparation; improvising

• appealing to the senses

• expressing command in a forceful and confident way

Extemporizing means:

• appealing to the senses

• cheerful, friendly, lively

• doing something without preparation; improvising

• done quickly; without thought or care

Sensuously means:

• appealing to the senses

• cheerful, friendly, lively

• to interfere or interrupt

• not able or willing to believe something

Vitality

• the quality of being lively; energetic

• touching or in contact

• deception designed to conceal, evade, or escape

• not able or willing to believe something

Disdain means:

• to learn or find out with certainty

• to interfere or interrupt

• deception designed to conceal, evade, or escape

• a feeling of dislike or disapproval

Convivial means:

• cheerful, friendly, lively

• done quickly; without thought or care

• touching or in contact

• not able or willing to believe something