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1. Avarice: (n) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).                                     Text/Source: ¨The banker’s avarice led him to amass an enormous personal fortune.¨ (100) 
Sentence: Avarice is the only thing that drives the corporate society of America. 

Freewriting: I personally do not like material goods determining the girth of your success, avarice and affluence should not fuel you, but it is one part of our lives that I have to accept.

 

2. Cardinal: (n) serving as an essential component.                                                              

Text/Source: “Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”(Fitzgerald 59).

Sentence: Compound movements are the cardinal of any weightlifting program.

Freewriting: I think one of the cardinals of success requires that you subdue to certain societal rules, and for men, they should keep some sort of chivalry.

Website (2nd Use): Theres 9 amino acids your body can't build by itself and needs from food, usually this should be acheived through eating meats, fish, eggs, legumes which have these cardinal amino acids.

 

3. Complacent: (adj) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions:                                          

Text/Source: “I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long writers, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family’s name” (Fitzgerald 184).                                     Sentence: These days I feel very complacent about my grades and performance, I know I can do better.

Freewriting: Two of the best creative thinkers of our time (Steve Jobs, and Mark Zukerberg) are drop outs, they just felt very complacent in that environment. 

 

4. Condescension: (n) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior.

Text/Source: “He smiled with jovial condescension, and added: ‘Some sensation!’ Whereupon everybody laughed” (Fitzgerald 49). Sentence: In the Indian caste system, the elite always have a condescension towards the bottom.

Freewriting: This emblem starts to describe you as a person (educated, hardworking, accompanied by the occasional condescension filled personality).

 

5. Dilatory: (adj) wasting time.                                                                                                

Text/Source: “The dilatory limousine came rolling up the drive” (Fitzgerald 115).            

Sentence: Sometimes during stressful situations I very dilatory with my actions.

Freewriting: Depression is just a dilatory phenomena.

Website (2nd use):Sometimes it can be a pretty dilatory job, but I got you covered, providing the facts from the fads.

 

6. Discernible: (adj) perceptible by the senses or intellect.                                                     

Text/Source: “He had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between” (Fitzgerald 120).           Sentence: I always get a discernible experience when I can hear music with a very deep and heavy bass.

Freewriting: His necessities are met and his is satisfied with what he has, he is content and tries to make some discernible connection with wonderful view he can get because of his house, he is looking at the bright side and appreciating what he has.

 

7. Dismal: (adj) causing dejection.                                                                                          

Text/Source: “The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour" (Fitzgerald 16).                

Sentence: The funeral gave me dismal emotions inside because of the dark clothing everybody wore.

Freewriting: Now pertaining back to health, in my world health comes back to homeostasis, the need to maintain a balance, you need to have both dismal moments and happy moments in life. 

Website (2nd use): The name is a bit deceiving but, it mainly comprised of ingredients to help you combat the dismal problems accompanied with dieting.

 

8. Extemporaneous: (adj) with little or no preparation or forethought.                                   

Text/Source: “She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed through her as if her heart was trying to come out to you” (Fitzgerald 19).                                           

Sentence:  We can never be prepared for extemporaneous situations, that is when we must use rational thinking.

Freewriting: Now this is what I hate about physical strength, the arrogance associated with it, this extemporaneous behavior can just tell you that they are mentally not a real man yet.

Website (2nd use): We tend to get caught up in the marketing hype and make poor extemporaneous decisions and buy supplements with the coolest packaging. 

 

9. Incredulous: (adj) not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving.                                           

Text/Source: “ ‘An Oxford man!’ He was incredulous. ‘Like hell he is!’ He wears a pink suit“ (Fitzgerald 100).                                             Sentence: It is hard to get an atheist to believe in a higher being because they are incredulous to that idea.

Website: It is not incredulous to get a great looking body without steroids. Aesthetics is the central component of natural bodybuilding, stay natty and stay clean.

 

10. Indignant: (adj) angered at something unjust or wrong.                                                       

Text/Source:¨Mr Wolfsheim’s nose flashed at me indignantly. ‘He turned around in the door and says: ¨Don’t let that waiter take my coffee!¨ Then he went out on the sidewalk, and they shot him three times in his full belly and drove away’¨ (Fitzgerald 62).           Sentence: When I saw the bully beating up that kid I became I became indignant and went to save him.

Website: Has your weight or appearance made you feel indignant about yourself? No self-esteem, no confidence in presenting yourself with others who are more ‘fit’.

 

11. Laudable: (adj) worthy of high praise.                                                                                 

Text/Source: “This was his day off and with laudable initiative he has hurried out ‘to see’ ” (Fitzgerald 149).                                               Sentence: Handicapped bodybuilders are very laudable people to me. 

Website: Get educated on all aspects of being a LAUDABLE TEENAGE LIFTER. From the best sources on the web. All in One Service.

 

12. Levity: (n) a manner lacking seriousness.                                                                           

Text/Source: “Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions" (Fitzgerald11). Sentence: After the professor cracked a joke, the classroom lost it's levity.

Website: Never have levity towards nutrition, you are what you eat.

 

13. Perturbed: (adj) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term).   

Text/Source:“Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy’s running around alone...” (Fitzgerald 87).                                                                       Sentence: I was perturbed when Mr.P introduced us to logarithms in pre-calculus class.

Website: Or your going to be left perturbed from all hard work you put into your body. 

 

14. Platitude: (n) a trite or obvious remark.                                                                                 

Text/Source: “One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool” (Tartt 211).                                                                                                       

Sentence: Sometimes my parents tell me cliche phrases, but those platitudes are always true.

Website: You know what they say, "You gotta work hard to play hard". You have to get yourself educated before you make this platitude a reality.

 

15. Punctilious: (adj) marked by precise accordance with details.                                            

Text/Source:“This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness” (Fitzgerald 64).   Sentence: I like Cort out of all the dorm boys because he is the most punctilious, when I ask him to quite down he listens and feels sorry, unlike the other dorm boys.

Website:This supplement has been researched since the 1980s, no other supplement in the world has the same punctililous research backing it up.

 

16. Sordid: (adj) foul and run-down and repulsive.                                                                  

Text/Source: “Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places—trading places—with names like Gran’ Bassam, Little Popo; names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister back-cloth” (Conrad 30).                                                                                                   

Sentence: The rust on the abandoned old shed out in the countryside was a sordid sight.

Website: Get the information YOU need to know, and stop having to read the same sordid stuff.

Website (2nd Use):Carbs aren't that sordid of a nutrient as the mainstream wants to make you think. 

 

17. Subterfuge: (n) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity.           

Text/Source:“She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hand, jaunty body" (Fitzgerald 58).                                                      

Sentence: The pickpocketer smiled at me before he took my wallet to take my attention away from my pocket, I have to say that was a good subterfuge.

Website: This essential part of life is filled with so many subterfuges. 

 

18. Supercilious: (adj) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.                                       Text/Source:“Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner” (Fitzgerald15).

Sentence: Back in the day the white population was very supercilious towards the black population.

Website: Superior to all protein sources, whey has the right to be the supercilious protein of all time.  

 

19. Vitality: (n) the property of being able to survive and grow.                                               

Text/Source: “Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facer or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering” (Fitzgerald 29).         

Sentence: When I get to run early in the morning, it gives me a feeling of vitality throughout the day.

Website: Nutrition gives you the vitality needed to build and maintain lean muscle. 

Website (2nd Use): It helps with the vitality of your joints, eyes, immune system, and helps with brain function. These essential oils cannot be created by the body and must come from other sources.

 

20. Vigil: (n) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe.                                                    

Text/Source: “Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them, strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while, trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf, I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front” (Fitzgerald 12).                                                                   

Sentence: The vigil of guards at stores increase quite substantially when I go into them.

Website: Its not just muscle that's comprised of polypeptides(protein), your skin, hair, intestines, or your vigil immune cells, every working part of a cell is comprised of protein.