Commensurate

"Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an æsthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder" (180).

Commensurate: proportionate, corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

Interminable

"I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock"(154).

 Interminable: endless (often used hyperbolically).

Contemptuous

expressing extreme contempt.

He is contemptuous of the poor.

Grotesque

Something unnatural and exaggerated.

It's a grotesque painting.

Chapter 5- Exultation

"He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and the filled the little room (89)".

Exultation- a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing

The streets of New York pulsed with exultation as the soldiers came home from the war

Chapter 4: disembody

"Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so i drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms" (80)

Disembody - separate or free from its concrete form

Spectroscopic, Homogeneity and Staid

"Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside- East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety" (44).

Homogeneity: adjective (dictionary.com)

1.

of the same kind or nature; essentially alike.

Staid: adjective (dictionary.com)

1.

of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.

2.

fixed, settled, or permanent.

This staid changes of getting botox will be there forever.

Spectroscopic: noun, Optics. (dictionary.com)

1.

an optical device for producing and observing a spectrum of light orradiation from any source, consisting essentially of a slit throughwhich the radiation passes, a collimating lens, and an Amici prism.

Anæmic

"He was a blond, spiritless man, anæmic, and faintly handsome" (25).

person suffering from anemia.

or

lacking in color, spirit, or vitality.

Fractiousness-(Adj)- readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome
pg 7: His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.

JSF and poetry VAP

Xeroxes

Dirigible

Altimeter
Pessimistic

Philanthropist

Upended

Incongruous

Metamorphosis

Subtle

Disheveled

Shortwave

Trivets

Quarrelsome

Idle

Rouge

Placid

Negligently

Abeyance

Effuse

Emaciated

Penitentiary

Xeroxes

"All of those notepads, and Xeroxes, and printed e-mails, and photographs of kids, and books, and dollar bills in wallets, and documents in files… All of them were fuel" (325)


Bill did not like his boss.  Bill used the xerox machine to make some copies for his boss, describing how he felt about him.  Bill got fired

Dirigible

"The dirigible mooring mast, now the base of the TV tower, was part of the original construction of the building" (249).

The blimp was dirigible, it was capable of being easily steered and directed.

Altimeter

"My backpack was already packed, and I'd already gotten the other supplies together, like the altimeter and granola bars and swiss army knife I'd dug up in Central Park, so there was nothing else to do" (315).
a sensitive aneroid barometer that is graduated and calibrated, used chiefly in aircraft for finding distance above sea level, terrain, or someother reference point by a comparison of air pressures. (dictionary.com) 

The planes altimeter let the pilot know that he was flying at 6,500 feet in the air 

Pessimistic

"...I was exhausted and frustrated and pessimistic, even though what I wanted was to be happy" (287).

pessimistic (adj): tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen

Steve knew that today was going to be sunny, but Johnny was being pessimistic thinking that it was going to be cloudy.

Matt "Philanthropist"

"Philanthropist"
a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

"i read the lists of the dead people in the paper: mother of three, college sophomore, yankees fan, lawyer, brother, bond trader, weekend magician, practical joker, sister, philanthropist... (273)".

Upended VAP by Julia Goldsmith
"a navy blimp was almost upended, and nearly swept away the celebrities attending the historic affair" (250).

 The artist upended her sculptures to create an illusion that the people were the ones standing upside down.

incongruous

Hey Nick here,

"Like the peculiar fossil record of Central Park. Like the incongruous pH of the reservoir" (222)

The man on a dinosaur is unexpected and incongruous.

metamorphosis

metamorphosis is the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.

Subtle

Subtle- So delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe
Pg 143 "I was incredibly nervous, but i maintained my confidence,  and I was extremely subtle"

The kiss was so subtle which made it even harder to say goodbye.

Sorry this is late but here is my VAP word

Disheveled- untidy / disordered (mainly appearance)

Pg.126 "he was standing with a disheveled man whose curly hair sprang up in every direction"

Penitentiary

"Next I went to the penitentiary. My uncle was a guard there" (77).

The murderer got sent to the penitentiary, a high security prison for the worst criminals.

Shortwave

"I remembered him tucking me in, and us listening to a person speaking Greek on the shortwave radio, and him telling me a story about New York's sixth borough." (37)

Shortwave:  a radio wave of a wavelength between about 10 and 100 m (and a frequency of about 3 to 30 MHz).

I turned on the old shortwave radio to hear classical music playing on one of the stations.

Trivets

"I went though hundreds of books, thousands of them, they were all over the apartment, I used them as doorstops and paper-weights, I stacked them if I needed to reach something, I slid them under the legs of wobbly tables, I used them as trivets an coasters" (28).

The woman didn't want to ruin her nice granite so she put her hot soup on a trivet to protect the counter.

Quarrelsome

Quarrelsome children have few friends.

Yawp

Idle

"How to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields.."

The dog stood idle, without purpose, staring and not doing anything.

Rouge

"A dog barked at me, until she came out pulling at her gloves, face bright with rouge (Gary Soto, "Oranges")."

I described the red bird to the french man as "rouge", so he could understand what color it was

Marvelous

There are some marvelous places in China.

Interstice
"A glimpse through an interstice caught"
Weeds are growing in the interstices of our front path. 

Smutty
"A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest" (Walt Whitman)
Many were shocked by Miley Cyrus' smutty performance at the VMAs. 

Dilate

"His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him"

Her pupils were dilated after the bright light turned on.

Evince

Going to the Met in New York City evinced the man's deep passion for art.

Evince: to indicate, to reveal the presence of

Placid

"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid"

The view on the beach is so placid, it made me relaxed as soon as i saw it.

Omnigenous

Omnigenous means composed of or containing all varieties.

Negligently

I did my calculations negligently, so I got most of them wrong.

Simply completing your school work will not suffice. You must complete your homework as well.

Abeyance

My vacation plan is in abeyance.

Effuse

"I effuse my flesh in eddies"

effuse: give off (a liquid, light, smell, or quality).