Express Yourself

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

• dictate

• contradict

• edict

• transcript

to say the opposite of something that someone else has said; to deny the truth

• transcript

• contradict

• dictate

• edict

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

• telegram

• contradict

• dictate

• edict

Before the inventions of the phone and the internet, people sent ____ to each other in order to communicate.

My doctor wrote me a _____ for medicine when I was ill.

Choose two words that best explain the word:

calligraphy

• plain

• fancy

• straight

• decorative

Choose two words that best explain the word:

graphic

• unclear

• detailed

• vivid

• vague

Choose two words that best explain the word:

inscription

• engraving

• temporary

• etched

• pencil

The court recorder typed a _____ of the entire trial.

The author retells fascinating details of her childhood in her _____.