Unit 5: Express Yourself

(v)- To speak or read something to a person who writes it down; to decree

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

(v) - to say the opposite of something that someone else has said; to deny the truth

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

(n) an official order given by a person with power or by a government

EX: The government issued an _____ banning public protests and demonstrations.

(n) a person's life story written by that person

EX: In Hellen Keller's _____________, she describes how she learned to speak

(n) - a message sent by telegraph and then delivered in written or printed form; sometimes referred to as a wire or cable

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

(n) - the art of making beautiful handwriting

EX: Ben's certificate for academic achievement was handwritten in ornate and beautiful ___________.

(adj) - shown or described in a very clear way, used especially to refer to things that are unpleasant or shocking.

EX:The scary _______ movie gave me nightmares for weeks.

(n) - words that are written on or cut into a surface

EX: The jeweler etched a beautiful __________ inside the couple's wedding bands.

(n) - a written, printed, or typed copy of words that have been spoken

EX: I have a _________ of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream speech.

(n) - a written message from a doctor that officially tells a patient what medicine to take

EX: When I got an ear infection my doctor wrote me a __________ for antibiotics.