Great Gatsby

Dayo (Canada)
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  1. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  2. conscientious
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  3. incredulous
    not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
  4. reciprocal
    concerning each of two or more persons or things
  5. complacent
    contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
  6. infinite
    having no limits or boundaries in time or space
  7. intimation
    a slight suggestion or vague understanding
  8. contiguous
    having a common boundary or edge
  9. facet
    a distinct feature or element in a problem
  10. cower
    crouch or curl up
  11. interpose
    introduce
  12. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
  13. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  14. imply
    express or state indirectly
  15. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  16. innuendo
    an indirect and usually malicious implication
  17. erroneous
    containing or characterized by mistakes
  18. vehement
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
  19. cordial
    politely warm and friendly
  20. vacuous
    devoid of matter
  21. corpulent
    excessively large
  22. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
  23. fluctuate
    move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
  24. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  25. rajah
    a prince or king in India
  26. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  27. valour
    the qualities of a hero or heroine
  28. somnambulate
    walk in one's sleep
  29. denizen
    a plant or animal naturalized in a region
  30. jauntily
    in a jaunty fashionable manner
  31. rout
    an overwhelming defeat
  32. innumerable
    too many to be counted
  33. ecstatic
    feeling great rapture or delight
  34. reproach
    express criticism towards
  35. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  36. exultation
    the utterance of sounds expressing great joy
  37. nebulous
    lacking definite form or limits
  38. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  39. debauch
    a wild gathering
  40. ingratiate
    gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
  41. perturb
    disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried
  42. dilatory
    wasting time
  43. desolate
    providing no shelter or sustenance
  44. elusive
    skillful at evading capture
  45. lapse
    drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
  46. insistent
    demanding attention
  47. tentative
    hesitant or lacking confidence; unsettled in mind or opinion
  48. tumult
    a state of commotion and noise and confusion
  49. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  50. irreverent
    showing lack of due respect or veneration
  51. vicarious
    experienced at secondhand
  52. settee
    a small sofa
  53. divot
    a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway
  54. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  55. conceivable
    capable of being imagined
  56. forlorn
    marked by or showing hopelessness
  57. laden
    filled with a great quantity
  58. pasquinade
    a composition that humorously imitates somebody's style
  59. derange
    throw out of mental balance; make insane
  60. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  61. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  62. elocution
    an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice
Created on Mon Oct 07 19:37:06 EDT 2013

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