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  • The complete path that an electric current travels along.
    Circuit
  • Occurring for a limited amount of time; not permanent.
    Temporary
  • Happening again and again in the same order; happening in cycles.
    Cyclical
  • To speak or read something to a person who writes it down; to decree.
    Dictate
  • An extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm with very high winds that turn around in an area of low pressure.
    Cyclone
  • To say the opposite of something that someone else has said; to deny the truth.
    Contradict
  • A message sent by telegraph and then delivered in written or printed form; sometimes referred to as a wire or cable.
    Telegram
  • A device (like a stopwatch) that is used for measuring and recording time in a very exact way.
    Chronograph
  • Arranged in the order of time that events occurred or took place.
    Chronological
  • What is the Greek word for circle?
    Cycle
  • To divide and give out something for a special reason or to groups of people.
    Allocate
  • A written message from a doctor that officially tells a patient what medicine to take.
    Prescription
  • A condition that surrounds or causes an event to happen.
    Circumstance
  • Happening or beginning now or in recent times; modern day.
    Contemporary
  • What is the Greek word for middle?
    centr/center
  • Located in the center of a thing or place.
    Central
  • A written, printed, or types copy of words that have been spoken.
    Transcript
  • A description of events in the order that they happened.
    Chronicle
  • What is the Latin word for around?
    circ/circum
  • To get around something in a clever and sometimes dishonest way.
    Circumvent
  • Relating to or occurring in a particular area, city, or town; located or living nearby.
    Local
  • The art of making beautiful handwriting.
    Calligraphy
  • Words that are written on or cut into a surface.
    Inscription
  • When two or more objects share the same center point.
    Concentric
  • A set of events or actions that happen again and again in the same order; a repeating series of events or actions.
    Cycle
  • An official order given by a person with power or by a government.
    Edict
  • A place or position
    Location
  • Tending to act in strange or unusual ways.
    Eccentric
  • Shown or described in a very clear way, used especially to refer to things that are unpleasant or shocking.
    Graphic
  • A person's life story written by that person.
    Autobiography
  • To force someone or something to move from a place or position.
    Dislocate
  • The length of a line that goes around a circle or other round shape.
    Circumference