vocabulary podcasts

As I was listening to these podcasts, I loved how some students made
these vocabulary words relevant to their lives. For example, the
students who used the words "discrepancy," "suppress" and "protrude."
These students made it clear that they understood the words by using
them in sentences that they might actually use in their everyday lives.
Other students seemed to use the words in a school context, like
"embark." However, my favorites are "misconstrue" and "temerity." They had
a clever way of delivering the meaning. I also think that students who listened to these podcasts might have a better understanding of the five words I have mentioned thus far.

This makes me think on how I need to have my students utilize their vocabulary words. I give them weekly lists and they memorize for the week, but three or four weeks
down the road, they have already forgotten them. It's a bit different
in Spanish. My beginning students will not be able to make complete
sentences in Spanish, but they could use an English sentence that
contains the Spanish word. Hopefully, as the semester progresses, they
would be able to create simple Spanish sentences.