Disconcerting

Page 64"And then came that disconcerting ride."

Definition: to throw into confusion, to disturb the composure of

Forms of the word:disconcerting(adjective), disconcertingly(adverb), disconcertment(noun)

Bedard had felt some discomfort after a simulated game recently, which was disconcerting, but he appears to be back on track now.

I and my neighbors find this situation very disconcerting as we await the devaluation of our properties due to the construction planned on our beloved No. 10 Fairway.

Inviolate

Pg. 125: His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.

inviolate: not violated or hurt; intact.

inviolately (adverb)

inviolateness (noun)

inviolable (adjective)

But to the abortion militia, compassion and decency are smote by their mythical yet inviolate "right to choose."

People whose plans got high marks, or even worse, won a business plan contest, tend to feel their plan is inviolate.

Florid

Pg 48 " I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be florid and corpulent person in his middle years".

Definition:flowery; excessively ornate; showy
Forms of the Word: flo·rid·i·ty  /flɔˈrɪdɪti, flə-/ Show Spelled[flaw-rid-i-tee, fluh-] Show IPA, flor·id·ness, noun
flor·id·ly, adverb
o·ver·flor·id, adjective
o·ver·flor·id·ly, adverb
o·ver·flor·id·ness, noun
un·flor·id, adjective

"A small man still florid from his daily joust with the hacking cough of a lifetime smoker, pads on feet through which little or no blood has circulated for years, into the bar".
http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/article461112.ece/Fans-face-fado--better-than-death

"Those who promote a Victorian "style" today tend to embrace the most florid period in that time span, but in our collective memory we think of Victorian houses as ornamented within and without".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052100197.html

Vacuous

Pg 46 ...." vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky".

Definition: purposeless; idle:
Forms of Word:vac·u·ous·ly, adverb
vac·u·ous·ness, noun
non·vac·u·ous, adjective
non·vac·u·ous·ly, adverb
non·vac·u·ous·ness, noun
un·vac·u·ous, adjective
un·vac·u·ous·ly, adverb
un·vac·u·ous·ness, noun

"While He’s Just Not That Into You dared to ponder a question or two about the nature of romance in the digital age, this vacuous mess doesn’t have a single idea in its head".
http://www.collider.com/2010/05/23/valentines-day-blu-ray-review/

But the show had slipped in the ratings; indeed, its demise was probably a foregone conclusion when its producers started burdening it with vacuous left-wing political themes.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/law_order_fadeout_lMkLvPB6kfemccrPYX9hhK#ixzz0os2QKyqA

Punctilious

Page 64 "This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness."

Definition:: marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions

Forms of the word: punctiliously(adverb), punctiliousness(noun), punctilious(adjective)

"Punctilious and distinguished academics made this decision and to suggest they twisted the truth to back it up is a dangerous fantasy."

Unknown by the reading public, for whom she was anonymous, Miss Hemelrijk was the queen of the fact-checkers, a crackerjack researcher and a punctilious copy editor.

Impetuously

Pg 45 "What do you think"? he demanded impetuously.

Definition: impetuous - marked by violent force; "impetuous heaving waves
Forms of Impetuous:im·pet·u·ous·ly, adverb, im·pet·u·ous·ness, noun


Meanwhile, several of the Tibetans impetuously decide to ambush their guards, forcing the entire group to escape in a desperate attempt to reach Nepal.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Differing+degrees+desperation/3031274/story.html#ixzz0os0LV4GN

On a back wall of the brightest house on Carswell Street hangs a piece of paper, protected in plastic to keep it from crumbling. It's a promise, impetuously made nearly a decade ago by sixth graders who lived nearby.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-05-06/news/bs-ae-youth-dreamers-20100507_1_after-school-center-dream-house-youth-center

Poignant

Page 57 "...wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."

Definition: painfully affecting the feelings, deeply affecting

Forms of the word: poignant(adjective),poignantly (adverb),poignancy(noun)

African boy's return from Minnesota brings poignant moment.

It's going to be a poignant departure for the final Atlantis mission and we wish the Atlantis and all its crew a safe journey.

Spectropscopic

p. 44 "...East Egg condescending to the West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety."

Spectroscopic: of or relating to or involving spectroscopy (the study of spectra)

Spectroscopic (adj.)
Spectroscopical (adj.)
Spectroscopically (adv.)
Spectroscopy (noun)

Spectroscopic analysis of the asteroid 24 Themis reveals it to be coated in a thin layer of water ice, confirming long-held suspicions of water on the rocky ...

Those ultraviolet spectroscopic observations, made in July 2009, showed that the wayward star is unleashing a fury of charged particles in one of the most ...

Caravansary

p.114 "So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes."

Definition: an inn, usually with a large courtyard, for the
overnight accommodation of caravans

(noun) caravansaries

The caravansary is usually constructed outside the walls of a town or village.

There are 4 caravansaries between Tehran and Semnan, built in Safavid era

Pervading

p. 104 "But I felt an unpleasentness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before."

definition: To be present throughout; permeate


(verb) per·vad·ed
per·vad·ing

To the very end, his music was powerful and consistently excellent, with deep lyrical thought pervading every fibre of his being.

it’ll be a really unfortunate turn of events if that kind of thinking ends up pervading our culture.”

Contingencies

p. 100. "He provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby."


Definition: emergency, likelihood, predicament.


(noun)/singular: constingency

But in today’s housing market, the buyers are in charge, so sellers typically have to accept inspection contingencies if they want to get a purchase offer on their home.

The contingencies are far more than the cost of the project, which I don't think most people would consider reasonable

strident

p. 35 "...i became entagled in some wild, strident argument wich pulled me back..."

Definition: making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking

stridence, stri·den·cy, noun

stri·dent·ly, adverb

non·stri·dent, adjective

The Kanes held strident antigovernment views and, according to Internet video and audio postings featuring them, traveled the country giving seminars on ...

The reason we do so brings us to the other part of the criticism—that the rabid and fringe voice is strident and extreme, and is therefore more saleable.

Rakish

p. 30 " her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle..."

Definition: smart; jaunty; dashing

rak·ish·ly, adverb

rak·ish·ness, noun

The Blackhawks didn't get to the brink of a Stanley Cup finals appearance by strength of reputation and rakish charm and by

But, unlike those generally staid sedan, the Sonata features a rather rakish, swept-back design that has earned it plaudits among the motoring press and ...

Pastoral

p 28 "we drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon..."

Definition: having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas

pas·to·ral·ly, adverb

non·pas·to·ral·ly, adverb

sem·i·pas·to·ral, adjective

Even so, while most pastors spend hours on sermons, many of us merely jot a few notes down for the pastoral prayer -- or, worse, .

The study by deanery and parish planners found that while many parishes individually lacked the means to address key pastoral priorities

expostulation

p. 138. "The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all."

Definition: to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done

expostulatingly (adverb)
expostulator (noun)
expostulate (verb)

Buckley noted with approval Kirk’s warning in the last chapter that “simple expostulation and lamentation” will not suffice to resist the liberals’ planned society.

In the distance approaching me I see two women walking briskly along, one in animated expostulation and the other nodding in answer.

portentous

p. 135. "I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade."

Definition: ominous, arousing awe or amazement; marvelous

portentous (adjective)

portentously (adverb)

portentousness (noun)

Gutierrez, Chairman of the Democratic Caucus Immigration Task Force, is fond of portentous pronouncements.

Based on Pete Davies's book All Played Out, it tends towards the portentous, with an epigraph from Churchill

rancor

p. 132. "Please don't." Her voice was cold, but the rancor was gone from it.

Definition: bitter, resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.

rancor (noun)
rancorous (adjective)
rancorously (adverb)

Financial regulatory reform is a hot-button topic recently, the cause of much rancor in the Congress and amongst the public.

In an e-mail to CNN.com, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes responded to the growing rancor over the site's privacy settings and policies, which underwent some changes in April.

Harlequin

p. 40 "...spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold."

Harlequin: varigate with spots or marks; a clown;

Harlequin (adj., verb, noun)

The wide-ranging exhibition at the Met covers the key areas Picasso was famed for, from harlequins to classic bathers and Cubist tabletops to delicate paper ...

This gathering of street performers is the tour de force of the young Picasso's Rose Period, with its harlequin self-portrait, fat clown, slim children and ...

Interminable

p.176 "Even when the East excited me most,even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, 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."

Definition: Incapable of being terminated

Interminable (adjective)

Interminably (adverb)

Interminableness, Interminability (noun)

... business is business, but it might not be as good business as some think to just let Allen walk out the door when this interminable NBA season ends.

The guy who penned this impressively interminable proposal swears in his comments that he's being sincere

Asunder

pg. 51 "Even Jordan's party, the quarter from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension."

Into separate parts or pieces.

Asunder (adverb) or (adjective)

"The robot standing over your shoulders is not waiting to grab you by the ears and tear you asunder."

"This would rip open-wheel racing asunder, just when there was enough trouble maintaining prestige and popularity with one series."