Word a Week | Week # 8

Welcome to theeighth installment of Word a Week. You can findprevious words here, here, and here.

In this semester’s math class, I don’t often find words that draw my eye. Between theorems and formulas, there isn’t a lot of room for fun vocabulary detours. However, a term from arecent chapter caught my eye. What got me about this word wasn’t as much its definition, but the root, which I’ve alsoincluded below.

This week’s word is:

amortize– [ˈa-mər-ˌtīz] (verb) 1. to pay money that is owed for...