Express Yourself

For your spelling test, I will ___ the words and then you will write them down.

I knew my sister was exaggerating when she told her story, but I didn't want to ___ her in front of her friends.

The government issued an ___ banning public protests and demonstrations.

In Hellen Keller's ___, she describes how she learned to speak.

To speak or read something to a person who writes it down; to decree

• autobiography

• contradict

• dictate

• edict

To say or do the opposite of something that someone else has said

• contradict

• edict

• dictate

• autobiography

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

• contradict

• edict

• autobiography

• dictate

Write down what I ___ to you.

If you ___ yourself, you do the opposite of what you said you would do.

Governments sometimes issue ___ that are nonsensical.