Although her family was considered nouveau riche, Penelope manipulated the complex machinations of high society to her favor using her decadent family home, lavish parties, elaborate fashions, and her naturally cunning nature.
(This sentence is based on The Luxe series and was inspired while I writing a review for the blog! Use http://www.thesaurus.com/ and http://www.dictionary.com/ to help you translate it.)
Official Word Nerd Rules:
- Once a month, I will post a sentence with vocabulary words in boldface.
- You have one week to look up the words, translate the sentence into normal language, and post a response in the comment section (with first name and last initial, please).
- Participants must be students in grades 6 to 12 who regularly visit Sellers Library.
- After one week, the person with the most accurate translation will get a prize.
- Entries may be similar and use some of the same words.
- If no entry is entirely accurate, I reserve the right not to pick a winner.
4 comments:
By no means am I entering, just having a little fun.
Although her family was considered newly rich, Penelope manipulated the complex design of high society to her favor using her immoral family home, splendid parties, elegant fashions, and her naturally devious nature.
i'm not sure under what conditions a family home would be considered immoral, though...
Yeah, I used Dictionary.com's thesaurus for most of the words. I didn't really see any good substitutes for decadent.
Although her family was considered newly rich, Penelope manipulated the complex design of high society to her favor using her messy family home, over partying, picky fashions, and her naturally shrewd nature.
Katie E.
I almost just typed new without the ly of then I stopped myself. yay!
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