The Great Gatsby Chapters 5-9 Vocabulary

humidor (n.)

a container or storage room for tobacco

elocution (n.)

a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public

divot (n.)

a piece of turf gouged out with a club making a stroke

antecedent (n)

a preceding circumstance, event, object

settee (n.)

a seat for two or more persons

serf (n.)

a slace

lapse (v.)

a slip or error

vicarious (adj.)

acting or serving as a substitute

rout (v.)

an overwhelming defeat

debauch (n.)

an uninhabited spree or party

orgiastic (adj.)

at the height or emotional excitement

desolate (adj.)

barren or laid waste; uninhabited

laden (adj.)

burdened; loaded down

indiscernible (adj.)

cannot be seen or perceived clearly

borne (v.)

carried

irreverent (adj.)

critical of what is generally accepted or respected

insistent (adj.)

demanding something

laudable (adj.)

deserving praise

forlorn (adj.)

desolate or dreary

subtle (adj.)

difficult to perceive or understand

superfluous (adj.)

excessive; unnecessary or needless

garrulous (adj.)

excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner

formidable (adj.)

forceful; of great strength

elusive (adj.)

hard to express or define

rancor (n.)

hatred or malice

nebulous (adj.)

hazy, vague, confused

hulking (adj.)

heavy and clumsy; bulky

conceivable (adj.)

imaginable; believeable

in cahoots (phrase)

in partnership

obstinate (adj.)

inflexible; stubborn

insidious (adj.)

intended to entrap or trick

innumerable (adj.)

numerous; incapable of being counted

portentous (adj.)

ominous;predictive of future bad events

repose (n.)

peace; tranquility or calm

ecstatic (adj.)

rapturous

abrupt (adj.)

sudden or unexpected

dilatory (adj.)

tending to delay or procrastinate; slow

suppress (v.)

to abolish or do away with

exult (v.)

to be highly elated; to show a triumphant joy

derange (v.)

to disturb the condition, action or function of; to make insane

ingratiate (v.)

to establish oneself in the favor or good graces of others by deliberate effort

reproach (v.)

to find fault with

surmise (v.)

to think or infer without certain or strong evidence

perturb (v.)

to throw into great disorder; annoy; bother

unutterable (adj.)

unspeakable; beyond expression

tentative (adj.)

unsure; uncertain; hesitant

tumult (n.)

uproar; disorder

incoherent (adj.)

without logical or meaningful connection

ceaselessly (adj.)

without stopping; unendingly