Gatsby Vocabulary (Period1) by https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr en-us 2023-02-06 04:46:30 UTC 2023-02-13 15:19:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Arrogant sarahtlahey https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2469509052 adjective
  1. having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.

Gatsby sentence: Describing Tom - 
"Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face."

related words: cocky, aloof, snobbish, rude
]]> 2023-02-06 04:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2469509052 Harrowed https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470333671 verb- cause distress to

“We both jumped up, and, a little harrowed myself, I went out into the yard”(85). 

Synonyms: torture, torment, pain]]> 2023-02-06 16:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470333671 Incessant https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470334678 Adjective 
1. continuing or following without interruption
2. “When she moved about there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jiggled up and down upon her arms”
Continues, nonstop, uninterrupted 

]]> 2023-02-06 16:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470334678 Privy - DJ https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470335008 1. Sharing knowledge of something secret or private.

Nick's sentence: introducing himself and how he was accused of when he was in college.

"I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men." (1)

aware of; accused of. Acknowledge

(Nick was always being told secrets to. He acknowledges secrets.)


]]> 2023-02-06 16:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470335008 Supercilious 202410571 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470341395 -Adjective
Definition- Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

“Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner” (7).

Synonyms- arrogant, haughty, conceited, disdainful, overbearing, pompous. 




]]> 2023-02-06 16:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470341395 Retribution-max 202410251 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470341768 Noun

Reward or punishment assigned after death in accordance with a persons conduct of live 

Sentence from book: 
“His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by”

Synonym: penalty, punishment, fate

]]> 2023-02-06 16:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470341768 Prodigality https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470342377 Definition: Prodigality refers to the quality of being wasteful or extravagant with money, resources or time.

Sentence from book:  “laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.”

Synonym: Extravagance, wastefulness, recklessness, profligacy, lavishness

David B


]]> 2023-02-06 16:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470342377 Defunct https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470342528 Adjective- no longer existing; dead

“His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock, and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy…”(86). 

Synonyms: discontinued, unusable, obsolete ]]> 2023-02-06 16:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470342528 incredulouusly 202401501 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470342658 1. in a manner indicating disbelief.
2. "Nobody's coming to tea. Its too late!" He looked at his watch as if there was some pressing demand on his time elsewhere. "I can't wait all day." -Gatsby (85) 
3. Doubtful, hesitant 

]]> 2023-02-06 16:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470342658 Magnanimous - Melanie https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470343302 1) Generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival/ less powerful person.

2) Tom tells Daisy to go back home in Mr. Gatsby’s car; to which, “She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn” (135). 

3) Generous, charitable, big-hearted


]]> 2023-02-06 16:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470343302 Abortive 20240935 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470343382 Unsuccessful outcome of an endeavor

“No-Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the ABORTIVE sorrows and short-winded elations of men” (2).

SYNONYMS:

Failed, vain, unsuccessful, unavailing ineffectual, unproductive



]]> 2023-02-06 16:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470343382 Indeterminate 202400832 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470343627
Adjective
Definition- not exactly known or defined 

Seeing the dogs on the train “In a basket swung from his neck cowered a dozen very recent puppies of an indeterminate breed.”(27) 

Undefined, unfixed, unspecified, undetermined  ]]> 2023-02-06 16:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470343627 Levity - DJ https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470344651
1. humor or frivolity, especially the treatment of a serious matter with humor or in a manner lacking due respect.

2. Remarks or behavior intended to be amusing, flippancy.

Nick talks about himself, "Most of the confidences were unsought--- frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon." (1)

liveliness, vivacity, carefreeness.

This word relates to the book because he's about to the experience he had with Gatsby and Tom.




]]> 2023-02-06 16:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470344651 Innuendo https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470345614 Noun
1. an oblique allusion : HINT, INSINUATION
especially  : a veiled or equivocal reflection on character or reputation
2. The bar was in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails with laughter and chatter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot.

Imputation 

]]> 2023-02-06 16:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470345614 Distraught https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470346347 Mentally distracted, by being drawn or driven in diverse directions or by conflicting emotions; deeply agitated or troubled.

“His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of defunct mantelpiece clock, and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair.”(86)

]]> 2023-02-06 16:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470346347 Contemptuously 202410571 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470346846 -Adverb
Definition- manifesting, feeling, or expressing deep hatred or disapproval : feeling or showing contempt. 

“You live in West Egg, she remarked contemptuously” (11). 
Synonyms- disrespectful, rude, insulting. 

]]> 2023-02-06 16:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470346846 Presumptuous - Melanie https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470368213 1) Excessively bold or forward; coming across as rude or arrogant. 

2) Tom insists that Daisy go home in Mr. Gatsby’s car, saying, “Go on. He won’t annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over” (135). Tom describes Gatsby’s actions towards Daisy as overly bold and arrogant, but tells Daisy not to worry.

3) Overconfident, forward, shameless]]> 2023-02-06 16:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470368213 Ramifications https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470495781 noun
1.  a consequence of an action or event, especially when complex or unwelcome.

Sentence: Giving background on Dan Cody’s life.
“The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper women, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him in a yacht…” (99)

Related Terms: Consequences, result, aftermath


]]> 2023-02-06 17:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470495781 Portentous https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470518557 adjective
1. A sign or warning that something, usually of importance, will happen

Sentence: “As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March from the ballroom below” (127).

Related Terms:
Forewarning, omen, warning]]> 2023-02-06 17:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470518557 Haughtily 202400832 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470787782 Adverb
Definition: to do something in an unfriendly way or to make yourself seem better than everyone else. 


“Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases, and went haughtily in. “(28)

Superciliously, loftily, arrogantly ]]> 2023-02-06 21:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470787782 Intimation https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470875585 Definition: a hint of something that is a private or personal nature

Synonyms: announcement, statement, notice, disclosure 

“But I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone- he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, fat as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.” ]]> 2023-02-06 23:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470875585 Desolate https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470881002 Definition: (of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.

Synonyms: bleak, bare, grim, dismal

“About half-way between West egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroads and run beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.”]]> 2023-02-06 23:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2470881002 Impenetrable-Briana https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2472656667 Definition~Impossible to pass through or enter.

Synonyms~Impassable, Trackless, Closes, Bulletproof.

“Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly freak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up and impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight” (Page 23)]]> 2023-02-08 00:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2472656667 Sumptuous-Briana https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2472663194 Definition~Extremely costly and expensive-looking,

Synonyms~Luxurious, Rich, Magnificent, Lavish

“It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.” (Page 25)
]]> 2023-02-08 01:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2472663194 Laudable https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2472819944 Definition: (of an action, idea, or goal) deserving praise and commendation.

“This was his day off and with laudable initiative he had hurried out ‘to see” (97).

Synonyms:
praiseworthy
commendable
worthy
deserving
]]> 2023-02-08 03:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2472819944 Superficial 20240935 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2473579388 Of little importance, insubstantial

Synonyms: Frivolous, Cursory, perfunctory, trivial 

“I lived at West Egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial contrast between them” (5).]]> 2023-02-08 15:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2473579388 Proprietary -Cole https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474202823 Definition: A person who owns something; an owner 

Synonyms: free holder, possessor, keeper, homeowner 

“She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here” (30).
]]> 2023-02-08 23:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474202823 Ineffable -Cole https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474206591 Definition: unable to be described in words; unspeakable

Synonyms: inexpressible, unimaginable, breathtaking, untold

“A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor” (99).


]]> 2023-02-08 23:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474206591 Punctilious -Isaac https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474488029 Punctilious

Adjective 

Definition: Strictly observant of or insistent on fine points of procedure, etiquette, or conduct; extremely or excessively particular or correct

Synonyms: meticulous, precise, detailed, particular, nitpicking

“This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness,”(64). 


]]> 2023-02-09 04:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474488029 Disconcerting -Isaac https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474488981 Disconcerting 

Adjective

Definition: that disturbs a person’s composure; unsettling 

Synonyms: disturbing, worrying, discomfiting, troubling, off-putting

“And then came that disconcerting ride. We hadn’t reached West Egg Village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit,”(64). 

]]> 2023-02-09 04:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474488981 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474496549 Apathetically: Having or showing little or no feeling/emotion

“A reluctant elevator boy went for a box full of straw and some milk, to which he added on his own initiative a tin of large, hard dog-biscuits—one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon.” (Page 29)

Synonyms: uncaring, disinterested

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Propriety: Relating to a owner or ownership

“She came in with such a proprietary haste and looked around so possessively at the furniture that I wondered if she lived here.” (Page 30)

Synonyms: trade mark, copyright  





]]> 2023-02-09 05:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2474496549 Denizen https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2475199147 One admitted to, or made free of, the privileges of a particular society or fellowship

“He’s quite a character around New Yorkers—a denizen of broadway”

Synonyms: resident, inhabitant, local]]> 2023-02-09 15:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2475199147 Impetuously https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2479734679 Definition: Impetuously refers to acting impulsively or with sudden, uncontrolled emotion or behavior.

Sentence: "what do you think?" he demanded impetuously 

Synonym: Rashly, spontaneously, impulsively, recklessly, unpredictably

David B

]]> 2023-02-13 15:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2479734679 Complacency 202401501 https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2479746481 1. a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.
2. "There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more." - page 13
3. Satisfaction, smugness]]> 2023-02-13 15:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahtlahey/z5qg4kntyifdxdqr/wish/2479746481