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100
Stroll, Walk Casually
What is saunter?
100
Of or pertaining to the countryside, Idyllic
What is pastoral?
100
"Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, __________ movements, stood up into the room."
What is deft?
100
"He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American--that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, __________ games."
What is sporadic?
100
"I walked back along the border of the lawn, ____________ed the gravel softly, and tiptoed up the veranda steps."
What is traversed?
200
Protruding, In the Way
What is obtrusive?
200
Hazy, Unclear
What is nebulous?
200
"I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go, I became entangled in some wild, ___________ argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair."
What is strident?
200
"His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a __________ clock, and from this position, his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair."
What is defunct?
200
"Slenderly, ___________ly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch
What is languid?
300
Skillfull
What is deft?
300
Repulsive, Extremely Ugly
What is grotesque?
300
His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of ____________ness he conveyed.
What is fractious?
300
"Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's hosue, had once _____________ed in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams..."
What is pander?
300
"...poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner--you clerks in the dusk, wasting the most ___________ moments of night and life."
What is poignant?
400
Leaving no room for hesitation
What is peremptorily?
400
Peircing, particularly in an emotional way
What is poignant?
400
"Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression "madman" as he bent over Wilson's body that afternoon, and the _________________ authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning."
What is adventitious?
400
"As I started my motor Daisy ________________ called: "Wait!"
What is peremptorily?
400
"She was only ________________ing, but a stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words."
What is extemporize?
500
Swollen, Overblown
What is turgid?
500
Improvise, Throw together hastily
What is extemporize?
500
"...and between the numbers, people were doing "stunts" all over the garden, while happy, ________________ bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky."
What is vacuous?
500
"My _____________ was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hasitly through a dozen magazines."
What is incredulity?
500
"The none too savory ramifications 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 __________ sub-journalism of 1902."
What is turgid?