Great Gatsby ch.3 Vocab

cordial:´´In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.´´

ravage:´´And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.´´

erroneous:´´A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray's understudy from the "Follies."´´

saunter:´´With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden.´´

tantalizing:"But I swore I wouldn't tell it and here I am tantalizing you."

hors d'oeuvre:´´On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.´´

gaudy:´´the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.´´

cynical:´´The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.´´

omnibus: ´´On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning ...´´

tumultuous:Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene.

corps:´´At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.´´

bewitch:´´On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.´´

innuendo:´´air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.´´

Cataract: At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam´

testimony:´´It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.´´

scamper:´´On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains.´´

bona fide:´´"It's a bona fide piece of printed matter.´´

harlequin:´´On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.´´

rowdy:´´We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age and a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter.´´

permeate:´´The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter...´´

piccolo: By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboespiccolo:´´ and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.´´

durable:´´I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard.´´