scrib, script = write

If your teacher says that you used terrific adjectives to help readers picture the characters, then what did you do well?

• scribble

• prescription

• transcribe

• describe

Answer explanation

to say or write down how something or someone looks; to use adjectives in writing

We would not have books from the 1800s if it were not for the people who had this job.

• script

• scribe

• postscript

• inscriptions

Answer explanation

a person who writes things down

Elizabeth is only a year old, so naturally when she picked up her first crayon to write it looked like this.

• inscription

• transcribing

• scribble

• prescription

Answer explanation

sloppy writing that is hard to read

If you pay for a year of Crafty Kids Magazine, then you get one of these.

• prescription

• transcription

• subscription

• postscript

Answer explanation

a written agreement to buy and read a magazine or newspaper for a set period of time

For the class play, every student tried to memorize his or her lines as written on this.

• inscription

• script

• subscription

• postscript

Answer explanation

a set of papers with writing that will be read and acted out

J. K. Rowling's original one of these brought in a million dollars at the auction! It was purchased by another famous author.

• postscript

• inscription

• prescription

• manuscript

Answer explanation

a piece of writing, a book

"Dr. Vu has this ready for you," said the front office clerk.

• prescription

• subscription

• postscript

• manuscript

Answer explanation

a piece of paper written by a doctor that lets you get medicine at the pharmacy

People who do this to books so that the blin can read them in Braille feel very good about their jobs.

• transcribe

• prescribe

• inscribe

• postscript

Answer explanation

to write down or record; to translate

The tombstone in the ancient cemetery had one of these that said, "A blessing to all who met her!"

• transcribe

• prescription

• subscription

• inscription

Answer explanation

a short dedication written in a book or engraved on something, such as a coin or monument

At the end of the letter, there was one of these that said, "P.S. Don't forget the dessert!"

• inscription

• postscript

• prescription

• subscription

Answer explanation

P.S.; a short bit of writing added after a letter is finished