Gatsby Vocab

supercilious

adj- coolly and patronizingly

languid

adj- drooping or flagging from exhaustion, sluggish, listless

complacency

n- self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers

vitality

n- physical or mental vigor, lively animation, that which distinguishes living from non living

discreet

adj- discerning, showing good judgement, capable of preserving prudent silence

apathetic

adj- having or showing little or no emotion, indifferent

prodigality

n- reckless extravagance, wasteful and lavish expenditure, profuse luxury

credulity

n- undue readiness belief

vacuous

adj- emptied of o lacking content, marked by lack of ideas or intelligence, inane

punctilious

adj- concerned about precise exact accordance with details or codes or conventions

incredulity

n- disbelief

juxtaposition

n- the act of instance of placing two or more things side by side

vestige

n- a trace, a mark, or visible sign left by something vanished or lost

nebulous

adj- indistinct, vague

insidious

adj- awaiting a chance to entrap, treacherous, harmful enticing, seductive

meretricious

adj- of or relating to a prostitute, tawdrily, and falsely attractive, gaudy

ineffable

adj- incapable of being expressed in words, indescribable, unspeakable

portentous

adj- prophetic, foreshadowing a coming event, ominous

vicarious

adj- experienced through imaginative participation in the experience of another

magnanimous

adj- showing lofty and courageous spirit, having nobility of feeling and generosity of mind

malice

n- desire to see another suffer, intent to cause harm

grail

n- the object of an extended or difficult quest (Holy Grail= Last Supper cup/platter)

benediction

n- an expression of good wishes, a blessing, something that promotes goodness or well being

transitory

adj- tending to pass away,temporary, transient, or brief duration

aesthetic

adj- of / relating to / appreciative of / responsive to the beautiful, artistic