Curriculum Vocabulary 2:9 ~ ASSIGNMENT: Write each word, its part of speech and a meaningful, grammatically perfect sentence of your own devising for each word. You do not need to write what is in italics.

1. usurer, noun

One who
lends money
for generally
exorbitant
interest rates

Example:

The usurer
charged ______ %
in interest.

2. digressing, verb

LECTURE ON PEACE


"And now about my goldfish."

to turn aside from the main subject

SPEECH ON TAXES

"Did I tell you about how well my mother cooks?"

Starter: The presidential candidate began digressing about ________.

 

3. valor, noun

courage and boldness

4. perjury, noun

Question: He committed perjury by doing what?

  

 

 

 

5. lamentation, noun

act of expressing grief

We could hear her
lamentation
by her son's grave.

 

6. loathed, verb.