Warm up: Vocabulary Chapter 6

Find the definition of the underlined bolded words.

1. Gatsby’s notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.

2. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God — a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that — and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.

3. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked
with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.