I've listened to just over a quarter of Jake Gyllenhaal's reading of Great Gatsby, an acquisition from Audible's Black Friday sale, and here's some of the vocabulary that I've come across:
supercilious
epigram
carriage (as in a person's bearing)
extemporaneous
contributory
retinas
proprietary
omnibus
obstetrics
A British woman I recently met told me Americans have weak vocabularies. Whether that's true or not, Fitzgerald certainly would be an exception!
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