reverent. "He drew me into his office, remarking in a reverent voice that it was a sad time for all of us, and offered me a cigar."

inquisition. " swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old--even then it had always for me a quality of distortion."

recede. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

vestibule. "He went out to the open vestibule and sat down on a folding-chair, and the station slid away and the backs of unfamiliar buildings moved by."

amorphous. "A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."

flush. "It was a cold fall day with fire in the room and her cheeks flushed."

forlorn. "This was a forlorn hope--he was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife."

corrugated. "A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden."

circumstantial. "Most of those reports were a nightmare--grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue."

pneumatic. "He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up."

elocution. "Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it 5.00-6.00"

indecipherable. "No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable]"

musty. "There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere and the rooms were musty as though they hadn't been aired for many days."