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The great gatsby

Wed May 01 17:21:26 EDT 2013
prodigal
Book Sentence: "Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality; tipped out at a cheerful word" (40).
But the prodigal made up his mind not to trouble about that.
erroneous
Book Sentence: "A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her, and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that is Gilda Gray’s understudy…" (41).
The day after the bombings, various major news organizations went with an erroneous story about an arrest.
vehement
Book Sentence: "As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements…" (42).
Sure Beth and Andrew both thought the proposal wouldn’t go over too well, but Sarah’s vehement response doesn’t immediately make sense.
homogenous
Book Sentence: "Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity…" (44).
For example, think of how sugar dissolves in water, making a homogenous solution.
impetuous
Book Sentence: "What do you think?’ he demanded impetuously" (45).
Will began to wish he had not been so impetuous.
vacuous
Book Sentence: "…and between the numbers people were doing ‘stunts’ all over garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky"(46).
His vacuous face had taken on a vivacity.
corpulent
Book Sentence: "I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years" (48).
Baln Bose, an old, corpulent gentleman, aged sixty-two, has been suffering from asthmatic attacks for some years.
florid
Book Sentence: "I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years"(48).
But unimpressed critics contend Millet’s artistic conceit and florid prose rationalizing Breivik’s acts are little more than an apology advancing extreme-right doctrine.
wan
Book Sentence: "Now you’re started on the subject,’ she answered with a wan smile" (49).
Despite being killed off in the 1977 debut instalment, Alec Guinness played Obi Wan Kenobi in two more Star Wars films.
provincial
Book Sentence: "But young men didn’t---at least in my provincial inexperience I believe they didn’t---drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound" (49).
Those divisions are likely to play out in the provincial election results.
scamper
Book Sentence:"
These men scamper across the stage on all fours at many different speeds.
hors d'oeuvre
Book Sentence:
Pickled oysters are always served as a hors d'oeuvre.
permeate
Book Sentence:
It permeates our daily lives in ways we never think about.
opal
Book Sentence:
Lastly, wrapped a long opal chain necklace around my wrist as a bracelet.
agonizingly
Book Sentence:
His problems often seem like agonizingly exaggerated versions of everyone's.
purposeless
Book Sentence:
My aunt was rubbing her hands together in a feeble, purposeless, undecided sort of way.
sceptically
Book Sentence:
He was too intensely in earnest himself to note that his companion was sceptically making fun of him.
cataract
He could feel the sand slipping from under him, streaming past like a solid cataract.

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