Sentences!

Ornate: When I saw my sister's wedding dress, I was in awe! The dress was so ornate and beautiful. It was clear that the designer gave each little bead on the dress a lot of thought and did his best to make it the most beautifully decorated dress.

Malleable: The clay we worked with in Ceramics class was very malleable when wet. Once it was dry, it was impossible to shape it into something.

Intuition: When I was younger, I thought that I was so special because I somehow figured out a lot of things before they happened. Then, my brother told me it was because the things I figured out were obvious, not because I had some type of intuition. I was so bummed.

Emigrate: Tons of people, like my grandparents, emigrate to a different city, state, or country in order to make a better life for themselves and their family. My grandparents came to the United States with a worker's permit and worked here, legally, so that my father, aunts, and uncles could have a better life.

Genre: Out of all the genre's of music, my favorites would have to be country, acoustic, and soft rock. There are so many different categories of music, that it's difficult to choose just one!

Mural: For our graduation, I wanted to cover up the murals in the gym. I simply thought that those huge paintings on the wall would be a distraction during the ceremony and not very elegant.

Narrative: I have realized that my "excerpts" on this vocabulary blog have become more like narratives of my life. They're stories rather than pieces of stories. Or is my life a narrative and the blogs excerpts since they are pieces of my life?

Parody: The other day I saw a parody of Miley Cyrus' "The 7 Things I Hate About You" music video. It was so hilarious because the person imitating Miley's singing and dancing was being so exaggerated with his movements and made himself look ridiculous with a wig and girl clothes on.

Realism: When I visited the Holocaust Musem in Washington DC, I thought the pictures showed a great realism of how things were back then. Whoever took the pictures really knew how to capture what was going on with great accuracy.

Discredit: My friends and I went out for dinner when I returned from my trip to Spain this summer. They told our waiter that it was my birthday and if they could bring me a slice of cake to celebrate. Their claim was easily discredited when they asked for my ID and saw that it really wasn't my birthday.

Plagarism: Everytime we have an assignment for school, our teachers ask us to site our resources so we won't be blamed of plagarism. By citing the sources, we're acknowledging that the ideas aren't ours and that the information we used came from outside sources.

Austere: I walked into my church a couple of months ago and saw that it looked very austere. The decorations had been taken down and the walls had been painted an almost white blue color. It looked plain and ugly.