See if you can get ahead on the technical terms for the ways in which these words have changed meaning by googling. Use 'pejoration' to get you started (and you could link some of these to semantic derogation too). Try and learn some examples over the summer.
http://ideas.ted.com/2014/06/18/20-words-that-once-meant-something-very-different/
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