Appalled: (adjective) struck with fear, dismay. Shocked
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Pervading: (verb) To spread throughout as in a smell or a liquid; to permeate
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Contingency: (noun) a future emergency; an event that may occur but is not likely
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Proximity: (noun) nearness in space or time; nearness or closeness in a series; being close or near.
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Desolate: (adjective) Devoid of inhabitants; deserted; barren; lifeless
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Reveries: (noun) A state of pleasant daydreaming; to be so lost in solitary thought as to be unaware of one’s surroundings
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Dilatory: (adjective) Tending or inclined to delay or waste time.
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Sensuous: (adjective) Involving gratification of the five senses: taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell
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Elusive: (adjective) Not easily caught or retained.
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Tentatively: (adverb) Not fully agreed upon, indicating a lack of confidence or certainty
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Genially: (adverb) In a friendly, pleasant manner
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Trimalchio: a character in the Roman work of fiction, Satyricon. Trimalchio, a freed slave who has attained great wealth through hard work, becomes well known for throwing showy and vulgar dinner parties.
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Ineffable: (adjective) Incapable of being expressed by words; too great or intense to be expressed in words.
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Turbulent: (adj.) Characterized by conflict, disorder, confusion, chaos
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Ingratiate: (verb) To make someone like you by doing favors or being particularly agreeable.
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Turgid: (adjective) Swollen, congested; tediously bombastic or pompous
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Madame de Maintenon: The French consort of Louis XIV who married him after the death of his first wife; a woman who takes advantage of a man for his money.
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Unsavory: (adjective) Disagreeable and unpleasant because of immorality or lack of ethics; disagreeable or unattractive to the senses.
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Oblivious: (adjective) Lacking conscious awareness; unmindful
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Vigil: (noun) A period of staying awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or to pray.
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“She was ________ by West Egg, this unprecedented place that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village - _________ by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing."
2. ___________: Involving gratification of the five senses
4. ______________: Intending to be or inclined to be slow or to waste time.
“She was in her middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh ________ as some women can.”
3. ____________: A character in a Roman work of fiction. A former slave, this character attained great wealth due to hard work, and threw spectacular and gaudy parties for the wealthy.
“It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday - and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as _______was over.”
“Nope.” After a pause, he added “sir.” in a _________, grudging way.
5. _______________: A future emergency; an event that may happen but is not likely.
“The immediate ___________ overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.”
6. _______________: Barren, lifeless, crushed by grief
“ ....the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed desperately into deep heat with a desolate cry.”
7. ___________: Tediously pompous or bombastic
“The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaperwoman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the ________ journalism of 1902.”
8. ___________: To gain favor with someone by deliberate efforts such as doing favors; trying to be particularly likable to someone.”
“For several weeks I didn’t see him or hear his voice on the phone - mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to _______ myself with her senile aunt - but finally, I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon.”
9. ___________: To spread or be diffused throughout
“There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a _________ harshness that hadn’t been there before.”
10. ___________: Diffusing warmth and friendliness; in a friendly, pleasant manner
“'I read somewhere that the sun’s getting hotter every year,’ said Tom _______."
11. ____________: The region close around a person or thing; nearness in space or time.
“It occurred to me that he had been very slowly bending toward her all evening to attain this ____________ , and even while I watched I saw him stoop one ultimate degree and kiss at her cheek.”
12. ____________: A person, an animal or a thing such as a thought that cannot be easily caught or retained.
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something - an _________ rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago.”
13. ____________: To keep watch; to stay awake during a time usually spent asleep, especially to pray.
“Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s faded eyes kept their ____.”
14. ____________: Lacking conscious awareness of; indifferent; careless of.
“Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an __________ embrace.”
15. ____________: A state of pleasant daydreaming; a condition in which one is so absorbed in one’s thoughts, fantasies or daydreams as to be oblivious to one’s actual surroundings.
“For a while these __________ provided an outlet for his imagination....”
16. ___________: A state of chaos, conflict, turmoil.
“But his heart was in a constant, _________ riot.”
17. ____________ : Inexpressible; incapable of being expressed by words. Too great or intense to be expressed by words.
“A universe of _________ gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes on the floor.”
18. _____________ : Disagreeable due to immorality or lack of ethics
“The ________________ ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played ____________________ to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.”
19. ______________ : The French consort who married Louis the XlV after the death of his wife; a woman who takes advantage of a man for his money.
“The ________________ ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played _________________ to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.”
20. ______________: Indicating hesitation, a lack of certainty
“Jordan and Tom and I got into the front seat of Gatsby’s car. Tom pushed the unfamiliar gears ________ and we shot off into the oppressive heat leaving them out of sight behind.”
