Roots: Port, Miss and Mit, Graph, and Scrib and Script

If you are sent out to do something special, what might that be called?

• Missile

• Mission

• Export

• Portfolio

I'm reading a book written by a person who built 100 homes for people who couldn't afford to do it themselves. He wrote the book himself. What type of book is it?

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Autograph

• Postscript

What is the name of a person who writes things down with the goal of recoding information?

• Dictator

• Scribe

• Seismograph

• Inscription

When someone says, "You can go now," what did she just do?

• Imported

• Admitted

• Reported

• Dismissed

In these busy days of moving around and working hard, what feature of products do adults love?

• Submit

• Portable

• Imports

• Intermission

What do you need to get from a doctor before you get medicine?

• Subscription

• Phonograph

• Postscript

• Prescription

Who would be willing to help you carry your bags up to your hotel room on vacation besides your parents?

• Porter

• Portage

• Reporter

• Transitter

What do we call two words that are spelled the same but have different meanings?

• Phonographs

• Cartographs

• Postscripts

• Homographs

What is the area of study in which people make maps?

• Cartography

• Manuscripts

• Photography

• Biography

Cargo ships and giant trucks are often used to do this to products from one place to another.

• Import

• Transport

• Emit

• Admit