Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Great Gatsby Vocab 2 (of 3)

Here's the vocab for pages 60-120. One of your comments may be left here with a sentence of your own creation using one of the words below correctly. If you want to contribute a vocab word to the final list, turn in your gold vocab slip by Monday Nov. 9.

Incredulity – inability to unwillingness to believe

“My incredulity was submerged in fascination now…” (p. 71)

Somnambulatory = of or pertaining to sleepwalking

"He was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction." (p. 74)

Obstinate - firmly or stubbornly sticking to one's opinion, way of life, etc.

"Americans have always been obstinate about being peasantry." (p. 93)

Pompadour – an arrangement of a man’s hair where it is brushed up high from the forehead

“‘The pompadour! You never told me you a had a pompadour – or a yacht.’” (p. 99)

Septic - infected; contaminated

"But what had amused me then turned septic on the air now." (p. 112)

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