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Express Yourself! Dict-, scrib/script-, graph/gram-

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Dictate means?

a)

Read to a bot to type it

b)

Speak or read to someone who writes it down

c)

Write on a typewriter

d)

Write a book

2.

Latin root meaning "write"

a)

dict

b)

graph/ gram

c)

scrib/script

3.

Former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote one of these about her life as wife of a United States president.

a)

biography

b)

seismograph

c)

autobiography

d)

autograph

4.

The root word "dict" means?

a)

say, declare

b)

write

c)

write, draw, describe, record

5.

Which word means to say the opposite of something that someone else has said; to deny the truth?

a)

dictate

b)

contradict

c)

edict

6.

Which word means an official order given be a person with power or by a government?

a)

dictate

b)

contradict

c)

edict

7.

Which word means shown or described in a very clear way, used especially to refer to things that are unpleasant or shocking?

a)

autobiography

b)

telegram

c)

calligraphy

d)

graphic

8.

Which word means a written message from a doctor that officially tells a patient what medicine to take?

a)

inscription

b)

contradict

c)

prescription

9.

Which word means the art of making beautiful handwriting?

a)

autobiography

b)

telegram

c)

calligraphy

d)

graphic

10.

Fill in the blank. I knew my sister was exaggerating when she told her story, but I didn't want to ?_________ her in front of her friends.

a)

dictate

b)

contradict

c)

edict

11.

Fill in the blank. The government issued an ________ banning public protest and demonstrations.

a)

dictate

b)

contradict

c)

edict

12.

Fill in the blank: When I got an ear infection my doctor wrote me a __________ for antibiotics.?

a)

inscription

b)

transcript

c)

prescription

13.

Fill in the blank: The scary, ________ move gave me nightmares for weeks to come.

a)

autobiography

b)

telegram

c)

calligraphy

d)

graphic

14.

An inscription can easily be removed with water.

a)

true

b)

false

c)

I do not know.

15.

A transcript can be handwritten or typed.

a)

true

b)

false

c)

I do not know.

16.
a)

dictate

b)

transcript

c)

edict

d)

graphic