10 Vocabulary Words

1. Fractiousness: Refractory or unruly, readily angered. (7)
His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.

2. Accentuated: To give emphasis or prominence to. (11)
She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which accentuated by throwing her body backwards at the shoulders like a young cadet.

3. Infinitesimal: Indefinitely or exceedingly small. (13)
After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with slight nod, and she winked at me again.

4. Cordial: Courteous and gracious. (42)
I found it necessary to attach myself to some one before I should begin to address cordial remarks to the passers-by.

5. Rivulets: A small stream. (51)
The tears coursed down her cheeks-not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets.

6. Somnambulatory: To walk during sleep. (69)
Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr.Wolfsheim swallowed a sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory.

7. Caravansary: An inn, usually with a large courtyard. for overnight accommodations. (114)
So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in their eyes.

8. Vicariously: Performed or exercised, received. (131)
As though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.

9. Portentous: Momentous, ominously significant or indicative. (135)
Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

10. Bulbous: Bulging, large or fat. (171)
He held up two bulbous fingers.