Vase paintings show boys sitting on stools holding wood-backed wax writing tablets. They wrote on the wax with a stylus, a sort of bone or metal pencil pointed at one end and flattened out in a leaf shape at the other.

–The Ancient City,
Peter Connolly and Hazel Dodge

Read the passage, then use the drop-down menus to complete the sentences.

A stylus is a ...............*fill in*
a. vase painting
b. wax tablet
c.bone or metal pencil

A(n)........*fill in* clue shows the meaning of the word stylus.

a. definition
b. example
c. synonym
d. antonym