The Great Gatsby List

William G.
A challenging list of irregular words from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
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  1. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  2. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  3. vehemently
    in a forceful manner
  4. contiguous
    having a common boundary or edge
  5. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  6. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  7. complacency
    the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
  8. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  9. indiscreet
    lacking discretion; injudicious
  10. denizen
    a plant or animal naturalized in a region
  11. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  12. impetuously
    in an impulsive or hasty way; without taking precautions
  13. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  14. subterfuge
    something intended to misrepresent the nature of an activity
  15. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  16. convivial
    occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
  17. libertine
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  18. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
  19. nebulous
    lacking definite form or limits
  20. innuendo
    an indirect and usually malicious implication
  21. amorphous
    having no definite form or distinct shape
  22. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  23. vicariously
    indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute
  24. fortuitously
    by good fortune
Created on Sun Mar 11 16:38:47 EDT 2012 (updated Sun Mar 11 16:41:07 EDT 2012)

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