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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby. Vocabulary Ch. 7-9. dilatory. There were ten minutes of class left, so the students started asking dilatory questions before the teacher had time to start anything new. Dilatory ( adj ). Tending to waste time or move slowly; lazy Intended to cause a delay or waste time.

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The Great Gatsby

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  1. The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Ch. 7-9

  2. dilatory There were ten minutes of class left, so the students started asking dilatory questions before the teacher had time to start anything new.

  3. Dilatory (adj) • Tending to waste time or move slowly; lazy • Intended to cause a delay or waste time

  4. pander

  5. Pander (v) To cater to or profit from the weaknesses or vices of others, especially (but not necessarily)to arrange sexual intrigues

  6. libertine Will Turner was uncomfortable leaving Elizabeth with Captain Jack Sparrow because he is a known libertine.

  7. libertine • n.1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person. • 2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker (usually disparaging) • adj. Morally unrestrained; dissolute.

  8. garrulous Ron and Harry hurried down the corridor to get away from the garrulous know-it-all, Hermione Granger.

  9. Garrulous (adj) Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative. Other forms: garrulousness (n)

  10. rancor Jabba the Hutt felt such rancor for Luke Skywalker that he tried to feed him to the rancor.

  11. Rancor (n) • Intense hatred or spite

  12. vicarous Watch this video from my helmet cam and you can vicariously experience the excitement of my ski trip.

  13. Vicarious (adj) • Felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others She got a vicarious thrill out of watching her sister cliff diving • Endured or performed as a substitute for someone else vicarious punishment 3. Taking the place of another; acting as a substitute

  14. portentous I’m not sure what it might mean, but the gathering of crows on the fence certainly seems portentous.

  15. Portentous (adj) • Very serious and significant, especially with regard to future events • Excessively serious or pompous • amazing

  16. truculent The truculent toddler smashed the sandcastle when he didn’t get what he wanted.

  17. Truculent (adj) Aggressively defiant; refusing to accept something or do what is asked

  18. redolent The graham cracker crust is redolent of honey and cinnamon.

  19. Redolent (adj) • Having a pleasant odor; fragrant • Suggestive; reminiscent

  20. surmise While the investigators from Scotland Yard were gathering evidence, Sherlock quickly surmised that the butler did it.

  21. surmise 1. Noun: a thought or idea based on scanty evidence; conjecture My surmise is that the couple’s “good news” is that they are going to have a baby. 2. Verb: to form an idea from scanty evidence He must have surmised that I was not interested.

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