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| (V) To speak to a person who writes it down; to decree EXAMPLE: for your spelling test, I will ______ the words and then you will write them down. |
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| (V) To say the opposite of something that someone else has said; to deny the truth EXAMPLE: I knew my sister was exaggerating when she told the story, but I did not want to _______ her in front of her friends. |
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| (N) An official order given by a person with power or by a government EXAMPLE: the government issued an _____ banning public protests and demonstrations |
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| (N) a person's life story written by that person EXAMPLE: in Helen Keller's ________, she described how she learned to speak |
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| (N) a message sent by a telegraph and then delivered in written or printed form; sometimes referred to as a wire or cable EXAMPLE: before the inventions of the phone and the internet, people sent ______ to each-other in order to communicate |
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| (N) The art of making beautiful handwriting EXAMPLE: Ben's certificate for academic achievement was handwritten in ornate and beautiful ________. |
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| (ADJ) shown or described in a very clear way, used especially to refer to things that are unpleasant or shocking EXAMPLE: the scary, ______ movie gave me nightmares for weeks to come |
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| (N) words that are written on or cut into a surface EXAMPLE: the jeweler etched a beautiful ________ inside the couple's wedding bands |
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| (N) a written, painted, or typed copy of words that have been spoken EXAMPLE: I have a ________ of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech |
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| (N) a written message from a doctor that officially tells a patient what medicine to take. EXAMPLE: when I got an ear infection my doctor wrote me a _________ for antibiotics. |
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