VOCABULARY STUDY- The Great Gatsby- Chapter 6 & 7 Name: Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues: Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided. 1. He saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior. 2. A universe of ineffable 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 upon the floor. 3. The none too savory ramification by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid journalism of 1902. 4. I remember a portrait of him up in Gatsby’s bedroom, a grey, florid man with a hard empty face—the pioneer debauchee who during one phase of American life brought back to the eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon. 5. The dilatory limousine came rolling up the drive. 6. The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss. 7. We were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March from the ballroom below. 8. The music had died down as the ceremony began and now a long cheer floated in at the window, followed by the intermittent cries of ‘Yea—ea—ea!’ and finally by a bust of jazz as the dancing began. 9. Her voice was cold but the rancor was gone from it. 10. Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead. Part II: Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their definitions. Identify the part of speech as well. ______ 1. Insidious A. Unutterable; too great for words ______ 2. Ineffable B. Pompous, inflated ______ 3. Turgid ______ 4. Debauchee C. Of momentous or ominous significance D. Subtle, cunning, treacherous ______ 5. Dilatory ______6. Contingency ______7. Portentous ______8.Intermittent E. A possible but unlikely future event or condition F. Occurring occasionally; irregular intervals G. Self-indulgent man (drinking, promiscuity) ______9. Rancor ______10. Tumult H. Inclined to delay or waste time I. Malicious resentfulness or hostility J. A loud, confused noise; commotion