Great Gatsby Vocabulary Chapters 1-2
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Transcript of Great Gatsby Vocabulary Chapters 1-2
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This isn't just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
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Epigram: a short, witty poem expressing a single thought
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Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
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Supercilious: feeling or showing haughty disdain
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She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
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Extemporizing: to perform without prior preparation
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I knew now why her face was familiar-its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at . . . Palm Beach.
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Rotogravure: printed material, such as a newspaper
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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished her peremptory heart.
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Peremptory: dictatorial; offensively self-assured
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Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice . . . and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.
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Oculist: a physician who treats diseases of the eyes
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The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing.
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The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.