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.