Unit 5 root words quiz

to speak or read something to a person who writes it down

• Dictate

• Transcript

• Inscription

• Edict

To say the opposite of something that someone else has said

• Edict

• Contradict

• Graphic

• Dictate

An official order given by a person with power or by a government

• Contradict

• Inscription

• Edict

• Prescription

A person’s life story written by that person

• Autobiography

• Calligraphy

• Edict

• Inscription

a message sent by telegraph and then delivered in written or printed form. It is sometimes called a "wire" or "cable"

• edict

• transcript

• graphic

• telegraph

the art of making beautiful handwritten letters on something

• calligraphy

• inscription

• prescription

• dictate

Something that is shown or described in a very clear way (usually in an unpleasant or shocking way)

• contradict

• graphic

• prescript

• calligraph

words that are written or cut into the surface of something

• calligraphy

• prescription

• inscription

• telegram

a written, printed, or typed copy of words that have been spoken

• graphic

• edict

• telegram

• transcript

a written message from a doctor that officially tells a patient what medicine to take

• prescription

• transcript

• inscription

• dictate